Town · West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Brusly, Louisiana

Brusly is a town in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, part of the Baton Rouge, LA metro area. It has 2,593 residents. Brusly, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 15 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,228 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #72 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), effective property tax rate (low) and mental health care shortage (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), rent as share of income (high) and primary care physicians (low).

15Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,228 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #72 of 262 in LA
Population: 2,593 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,171.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 2210600

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.

Safety2#15,290/15,637
Economy50#7,814/15,631
Housing35#9,768/14,977
Health36#9,923/15,609
Healthcare51#7,646/15,650
Environment22#12,069/15,453
Education25#11,799/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,939/15,650
Community23#11,998/15,651
Leisure & amenities29#11,178/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Brusly, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “West Baton Rouge 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

Students per teacher · low10.2×
97/100Louisiana 13.7×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Effective property tax rate · low0.39%
94/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Louisiana 9.9United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Child care cost burden · low21.6%
90/100Louisiana 30.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Pharmacies · high2.4 /10k
88/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWest Baton Rouge Parish value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high19.1%
1/100Louisiana 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Louisiana 32.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Primary care physicians · low18 /100k
3/100Louisiana 71 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Dentists · low18 /100k
3/100Louisiana 60 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Traffic deaths · high36.4 /100k
4/100Louisiana 18.5 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataWest Baton Rouge Parish value
Violent crime rate · high617 /100k
4/100Louisiana 515 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWest Baton Rouge Parish value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,741 (2015-2019) → 2,593 (2020-2024)
−5.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
27.2% (2015-2019) → 10.5% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
10.0 /1k (2021) → 3.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−69%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Unemployment rateWorsening
5.5% (2015-2019) → 19.1% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateImproving
17.7% (2015-2019) → 7.9% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
41.6% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+9.4 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, Brusly, Louisiana improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent / income+9.4 points41.6% → 51.0%

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Brusly, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.6 min2015-2019	25.6 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	29.3%2015-2019	25.6%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Broadband subscriptions	84.8%2015-2019	89.0%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Effective property tax rate	0.48%2015-2019	0.39%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
High school diploma or higher	96.0%2015-2019	94.2%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	92%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4122015-2019	0.3792020-2024	−0.033	Within the margin of error	76%
Median household income	$77,5632015-2019	$105,5382020-2024	+36%	Within the margin of error	67%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	41.6%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+9.4 points	Declined	10%

“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 Brusly, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Brusly, 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, Brusly, Louisiana itself moved −3.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,593 residents (±22)

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

906 households (±147)

Brusly, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k13%†121
$25k–50k10%†93
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

906 households (±147)

Brusly, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own90%811
Rent10%†95

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

978 workers (±232)

Brusly, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone90%882
Carpool4.0%†39
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 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 West Baton Rouge Parish, the county holding most of Brusly's residents.

West Baton Rouge Parish has 594 employer establishments, 209 for every 10,000 residents (0.84× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Louisiana's), with 11,187 paid employees at an average annual pay of $61,214. The Census Bureau also counts 2,544 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 594; 2,544 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 209; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 11,187
Average annual pay: $61,214; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	47	16.5	0.90×About typical	942	$16,734	17
Specialty trade contractors	47	16.5	1.07×About typical	844	$81,156	194
Truck transportation	31	10.9	2.16×More than typical	752	$64,975	86
Limited-service restaurants	30	10.6	1.32×More than typical	624	$15,915	11
Gasoline stations	26	9.1	2.82×More than typical	327	$25,826	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	20	7	1.40×More than typical	133	$52,338	61
Ambulatory health care services	18	6.3	0.30×Fewer than typical	299	$85,264	104
Building equipment contractors	18	6.3	1.05×About typical	342	$90,064	50
Other specialty trade contractors	16	5.6	2.24×More than typical	305	$80,846	57
Traveler accommodation	15	5.3	2.92×More than typical	169	$20,254	8
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	14	4.9	3.08×More than typical	1,134	$53,008	3
Services to buildings and dwellings	14	4.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	93	$51,742	269

Rank places for an industry Open West Baton Rouge Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 28,420 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 Brusly, 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

2KFY2018

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 Brusly, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Brusly, Louisiana's figures are part of those of West Baton Rouge Parish, LA ($160.8M 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: Brusly is mostly in West Baton Rouge Parish.

See federal money in West Baton Rouge 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.

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

House

Cleo FieldsD-LA-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 3.0%

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.

West Baton Rouge Parish31100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Baton Rouge, LA33

Other cities and towns in West Baton Rouge 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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