City · Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Bastrop, Louisiana

Bastrop is a city in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, part of the Monroe, LA metro area. It has 9,232 residents. Bastrop, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 0 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,636 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #260 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), social associations (high) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on broadband subscriptions (low), child poverty rate (high) and mental health care shortage (high).

0Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,636 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #260 of 262 in LA
Population: 9,232 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 1,078.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2204685

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety1#15,546/15,637
Economy1#15,439/15,631
Housing25#11,254/14,977
Health2#15,260/15,609
Healthcare20#12,518/15,650
Environment23#11,945/15,453
Education2#15,339/15,649
Infrastructure0#15,608/15,650
Community11#13,966/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#14,973/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bastrop, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Morehouse Parish value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Pharmacies · high3.0 /10k
95/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorehouse Parish value
Social associations · high15.4 /10k
92/100Louisiana 9.4 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorehouse Parish value
Time spent in the emergency room · low122 min
86/100Louisiana 135 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMorehouse Parish value
Job growth · high1.4%
83/100Louisiana -0.5%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMorehouse Parish value
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
81/100Louisiana 0.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMorehouse Parish value
Effective property tax rate · low0.60%
80/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Broadband subscriptions · low69.0%
0/100Louisiana 86.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Child poverty rate · high53.8%
0/100Louisiana 25.0%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Mental health care shortage · high22.0
0/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMorehouse Parish value
Reading scores · low2.05
0/100Louisiana 2.74United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorehouse Parish value
Lack of reliable transportation · high24.2%
1/100Louisiana 11.8%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Food insecurity · high47.7%
1/100Louisiana 23.2%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
10,311 (2015-2019) → 9,232 (2020-2024)
−10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
43.2% (2015-2019) → 69.0% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$20,117 (2015-2019) → $32,605 (2020-2024)
+62%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
71.3% (2015-2019) → 61.6% (2020-2024)
−9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.4% (2015-2019) → 6.4% (2020-2024)
−7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherImproving
73.5% (2015-2019) → 81.3% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bastrop, Louisiana improved on 4 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved4

Broadband+26 points43.2% → 69.0%
Price / income−0.9×3.6× → 2.7×
Uninsured−7.9 points14.4% → 6.4%
Household income+62%$20,117 → $32,605

Declined1

Unemployment+7.8 points7.3% → 15.1%

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Bastrop, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.4 min2015-2019	23.7 min2020-2024	+1.3 min	Within the margin of error	33%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.3%2015-2019	6.0%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Broadband subscriptions	43.2%2015-2019	69.0%2020-2024	+26 points	Improved	96%
Child poverty rate	59.9%2015-2019	53.8%2020-2024	−6.1 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Effective property tax rate	0.32%2015-2019	0.60%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Little change	2%
High school diploma or higher	73.5%2015-2019	81.3%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	−0.9×	Improved	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5042015-2019	0.4572020-2024	−0.047	Within the margin of error	83%
Median household income	$20,1172015-2019	$32,6052020-2024	+62%	Improved	92%
Poverty rate	46.9%2015-2019	40.1%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	42.1%2015-2019	38.5%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Rent-burdened households	71.3%2015-2019	61.6%2020-2024	−9.7 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Unemployment rate	7.3%2015-2019	15.1%2020-2024	+7.8 points	Declined	1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.4%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	−7.9 points	Improved	94%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bastrop, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bastrop, Louisiana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Bastrop, Louisiana itself moved +6.5 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

9,232 residents (±29)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

3,506 households (±215)

Bastrop, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k35%1,226
$25k–50k40%1,406
$50k–75k8.6%†301

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

3,506 households (±215)

Bastrop, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own52%1,830
Rent48%1,676

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

3,110 workers (±350)

Bastrop, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone79%2,456
Carpool7.1%†222
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Monroe, LA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Morehouse Parish, the county holding most of Bastrop's residents.

Morehouse Parish has 439 employer establishments, 182 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.77× Louisiana's), with 5,329 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,644. The Census Bureau also counts 1,940 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 439; 1,940 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 182; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 5,329
Average annual pay: $41,644; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Morehouse Parish by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	42	17.4	0.83×About typical	393	$51,822	77
Religious organizations	34	14.1	2.54×More than typical	131	$20,641	—
Lessors of real estate	21	8.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	34	$25,941	143
Restaurants and other eating places	21	8.7	0.47×Fewer than typical	323	$17,279	17
Specialty trade contractors	18	7.5	0.48×Fewer than typical	199	$65,447	136
Gasoline stations	13	5.4	1.66×More than typical	69	$21,652	3
Limited-service restaurants	11	4.6	0.57×Fewer than typical	230	$17,048	3
Outpatient care centers	11	4.6	2.48×More than typical	167	$61,485	—
Banks and credit unions	10	4.1	1.28×More than typical	177	$31,814	—
Construction of buildings	10	4.1	0.55×Fewer than typical	29	$51,690	41
Insurance agencies and brokerages	10	4.1	0.94×About typical	102	$107,333	37
Offices of physicians	10	4.1	0.64×Fewer than typical	44	$61,068	7

Rank places for an industry Open Morehouse Parish

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 24,138 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bastrop, Louisiana: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

-22.5FY2017
138.8FY2018
693.5FY2019
694.5FY2020
437.1FY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bastrop, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bastrop is mostly in Morehouse Parish.

See federal money in Morehouse Parish

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bastrop, Louisiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Julia LetlowR-LA-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 5.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Morehouse Parish0100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Monroe, LA12

Other cities and towns in Morehouse Parish

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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