
Louisiana · FIPS 22089
St. Charles ZIP codes — St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Quick answer
St. Charles Parish is home to 51,863 residents with a median household income of $82,172 and a median home value of $256,800. 82.7% of households own their home and 9.8% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a St. Charles ZIP code? 9 ZIP code areas fall inside St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, listed in full below.
- Population
- 51,863St. Charles Parish residents
- Median household income
- $82,172Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $256,800Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,144Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 39.1 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 82.7%Owner-occupied households
St. Charles Parish, LA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
St. Charles Parish is a small city in Louisiana, with 51,863 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.1 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 St. Charles Parish earn a median of $82,172 a year, 4.6% above 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 9.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in St. Charles Parish is valued at $256,800, 15.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,144 a month, 18.6% below the national figure, or roughly $13,728 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 82.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 St. Charles Parish
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in St. Charles 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
Cities and towns in Louisiana
Largest Census places in Louisiana by population.
- New Orleans city 376,035
- Baton Rouge city 223,699
- Shreveport city 183,483
- Metairie CDP 138,995
- Lafayette city 121,537
- Lake Charles city 81,679
- Kenner city 65,113
- Bossier City city 62,832
- Monroe city 47,241
- Alexandria city 44,566
- Prairieville CDP 35,010
- Houma city 32,760
Nearby counties
Other counties in Louisiana.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of St. Charles Parish?
- St. Charles Parish has 51,863 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in St. Charles Parish?
- Median household income in St. Charles Parish is $82,172 a year, 4.6% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in St. Charles Parish?
- Median gross rent is $1,144 a month and the median home value is $256,800, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
- Is St. Charles Parish affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so St. Charles Parish is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this St. Charles 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.