ZIP code 70801

ZIP 70801 is a very small community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, with 243 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #474 of 539 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 39.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 70801 earn a median of $112,787 a year, 43.6% 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 3.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 70801 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,679 a month, 19.4% above the national figure, or roughly $20,148 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 243 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 70801 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for ZIP 70801 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

ZIP 70801 is tabulated inside East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, one of 25 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 539 across Louisiana. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. 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 70801 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 70801 reports a median household income of $112,787, 79% above the $63,114 county median, and 106% above the $54,720 typical LA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,679 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 70801 carries 10% at the register, assembled from the Baton Rouge 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 70801 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 70801 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.