What is the population of Natchitoches Parish?

Natchitoches Parish has 37,047 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Natchitoches Parish?

Median household income in Natchitoches Parish is $46,798 a year, 40.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Natchitoches Parish?

Median gross rent is $767 a month and the median home value is $163,000, so rent absorbs about 19.7% of median household income.

Is Natchitoches Parish affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Natchitoches Parish is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Natchitoches ZIP codes — Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

Quick answer

Natchitoches Parish is home to 37,047 residents with a median household income of $46,798 and a median home value of $163,000. 62.3% of households own their home and 24.1% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Natchitoches ZIP code? 16 ZIP code areas fall inside Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, listed in full below.

Population: 37,047Natchitoches Parish residents
Median household income: $46,798Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $163,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $767Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 33.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 62.3%Owner-occupied households

Natchitoches Parish, LA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Natchitoches Parish is a small city in Louisiana, with 37,047 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 33.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Natchitoches Parish earn a median of $46,798 a year, 40.4% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 24.1% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Natchitoches Parish is valued at $163,000, 46.3% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $767 a month, 45.4% below the national figure, or roughly $9,204 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP codes in Natchitoches Parish

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Natchitoches Parish.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Natchitoches Parish?: Natchitoches Parish has 37,047 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Natchitoches Parish?: Median household income in Natchitoches Parish is $46,798 a year, 40.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Natchitoches Parish?: Median gross rent is $767 a month and the median home value is $163,000, so rent absorbs about 19.7% of median household income.
Is Natchitoches Parish affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Natchitoches Parish is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Natchitoches Parish data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.