ZIP code 70115

ZIP 70115 is a small city in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, with 31,737 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #39 of 539 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 39.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 ZIP 70115 earn a median of $94,181 a year, 19.9% above the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 13.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 70115 is valued at $616,600, 103.2% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,442 a month, 2.6% above the national figure, or roughly $17,304 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% 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 6.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 54.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 6.5× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

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 70115 is tabulated inside Orleans Parish, Louisiana, one of 20 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 539 across Louisiana. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 70115 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 70115 reports a median household income of $94,181, 91% above the $49,234 county median, and 72% above the $54,720 typical LA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $616,600, 124% above the county figure and 300% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,442 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 70115 carries 9.45% at the register, assembled from the New Orleans jurisdiction stack: the Louisiana state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 70115 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 70115 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.