Census-designated place · Assumption Parish, Louisiana

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana

Bayou L'Ourse is a census-designated place in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, part of the Baton Rouge, LA metro area. It has 2,132 residents. Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 5 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,837 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #148 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), home price to income ratio (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), restaurants and bars (low) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

5Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,837 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #148 of 262 in LA
Population: 2,132 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 782.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2205378

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 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.

Safety5#14,861/15,637
Economy16#13,195/15,631
Housing91#1,303/14,977
Health14#13,367/15,609
Healthcare4#14,960/15,650
Environment27#11,218/15,453
Education6#14,759/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,075/15,650
Community14#13,476/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,531/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Assumption 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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Louisiana 14.6 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAssumption Parish value
Home price to income ratio · low1.5×
98/100Louisiana 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Rent as share of income · low22.1%
97/100Louisiana 32.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Effective property tax rate · low0.31%
97/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Public libraries · high2.5 /10k
94/100Louisiana 0.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesAssumption Parish value
Mammography screening · high55.0%
91/100Louisiana 48.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAssumption Parish value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low5 /100k
0/100Louisiana 60 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAssumption Parish value
Restaurants and bars · low2.5 /10k
1/100Louisiana 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAssumption Parish value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.5 /10k
1/100Louisiana 5.0 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAssumption Parish value
Primary care physicians · low15 /100k
2/100Louisiana 71 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAssumption Parish value
Mental health providers · low35 /100k
3/100Louisiana 365 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAssumption Parish value
Reading scores · low2.57
3/100Louisiana 2.74United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAssumption Parish value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,892 (2015-2019) → 2,132 (2020-2024)
+13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
77.1% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−77 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
72.0% (2015-2019) → 15.9% (2020-2024)
−56 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
50.5% (2015-2019) → 16.7% (2020-2024)
−34 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$23,457 (2015-2019) → $60,219 (2020-2024)
+157%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeImproving
39.8% (2015-2019) → 22.1% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana improved on 4 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 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

Poverty−34 points50.5% → 16.7%
Household income+157%$23,457 → $60,219
Price / income−2.2×3.7× → 1.5×
Rent / income−18 points39.8% → 22.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	32.8 min2015-2019	22.0 min2020-2024	−10.8 min	Within the margin of error	99%
Broadband subscriptions	70.9%2015-2019	86.6%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Effective property tax rate	0.39%2015-2019	0.31%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	31%
High school diploma or higher	77.6%2015-2019	76.6%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	1.5×2020-2024	−2.2×	Improved	99%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5432015-2019	0.5432020-2024	+0.000	Within the margin of error	50%
Median household income	$23,4572015-2019	$60,2192020-2024	+157%	Improved	100%
Poverty rate	50.5%2015-2019	16.7%2020-2024	−34 points	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	39.8%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	−18 points	Improved	98%

“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 Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bayou L'Ourse, 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, Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana itself moved +30.4 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

2,132 residents (±557)

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

833 households (±214)

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k14%†119
$25k–50k30%†254
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

833 households (±214)

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own87%727
Rent13%†106

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

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,004 workers (±344)

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone93%†931
Carpool4.2%†42
Public transit

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 Baton Rouge, 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 Assumption Parish, the county holding most of Bayou L'Ourse's residents.

Assumption Parish has 249 employer establishments, 123 for every 10,000 residents (0.50× the US rate of 248; 0.52× Louisiana's), with 2,459 paid employees at an average annual pay of $57,146. The Census Bureau also counts 1,681 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 249; 1,681 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 123; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 2,459
Average annual pay: $57,146; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	22	10.9	2.15×More than typical	153	$56,510	77
Specialty trade contractors	16	7.9	0.51×Fewer than typical	216	$75,935	139
Religious organizations	13	6.4	1.16×About typical	59	$21,254	—
Gasoline stations	10	4.9	1.53×More than typical	81	$24,630	—
Heavy and civil engineering construction	10	4.9	4.31×More than typical	279	$78,602	4
Building equipment contractors	9	4.5	0.74×Too few to compare	62	$52,629	20
Management, scientific and technical consulting	9	4.5	0.66×Too few to compare	108	$14,167	21
Restaurants and other eating places	9	4.5	0.24×Too few to compare	87	$15,759	12
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	8	4	0.97×Too few to compare	20	$45,850	12
Automotive repair and maintenance	8	4	0.79×Too few to compare	20	$35,200	32
Construction of buildings	8	4	0.52×Too few to compare	14	$23,786	34
General merchandise stores	8	4	2.24×Too few to compare	117	$27,419	10

Rank places for an industry Open Assumption Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,217 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 Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana: $0 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

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

1.2MFY2023
630.2KFY2024
13.2KFY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana's figures are part of those of Assumption Parish, LA ($75K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bayou L'Ourse is mostly in Assumption Parish.

See federal money in Assumption 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.

Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Troy A. CarterD-LA-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.3%

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.

Assumption Parish4100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Baton Rouge, LA33

Other cities and towns in Assumption 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
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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