Census-designated place · Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Estelle, Louisiana

Estelle is a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, part of the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area. It has 16,341 residents. Estelle, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 20 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,502 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #49 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), distance to an airport (low) and distance to an emergency room (low). It ranks worst on rent as share of income (high), natural hazard risk (high) and loneliness (high).

20Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,502 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #49 of 262 in LA
Population: 16,341 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 3,523.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 2224390

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety23#11,982/15,637
Economy35#10,122/15,631
Housing23#11,579/14,977
Health17#12,911/15,609
Healthcare71#4,608/15,650
Environment17#12,876/15,453
Education5#14,825/15,649
Infrastructure36#10,003/15,650
Community18#12,907/15,651
Leisure & amenities95#804/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Estelle, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jefferson 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 · high3.5 /10k
98/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson Parish value
Distance to an airport · low8 mi
97/100Louisiana 80 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauJefferson Parish value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.8 mi
96/100Louisiana 5.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJefferson Parish value
Restaurants and bars · high13.6 /10k
92/100Louisiana 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson Parish value
Comfortable days · high33.3%
91/100Louisiana 29.3%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationJefferson Parish value
Access to exercise opportunities · high97.7%
89/100Louisiana 75.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson Parish value

Weaknesses

Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Louisiana 32.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Natural hazard risk · high97.9
2/100Louisiana 71.72025Federal Emergency Management AgencyJefferson Parish value
Loneliness · high39.9%
3/100Louisiana 37.4%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Child poverty rate · high26.8%
4/100Louisiana 25.0%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Reading scores · low2.62
5/100Louisiana 2.74United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson Parish value
Rent-burdened households · high70.0%
6/100Louisiana 54.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
17,968 (2015-2019) → 16,341 (2020-2024)
−9.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
32.6% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
55.8% (2015-2019) → 70.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
13.5% (2015-2019) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
−4.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.0% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.3× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Estelle, Louisiana improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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.

Improved2

Uninsured−4.9 points13.5% → 8.5%
Broadband+4.6 points85.0% → 89.6%

Declined1

Rent / income+18 points32.6% → 51.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Estelle, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.4 min2015-2019	27.2 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	63%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.5%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	85.0%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+4.6 points	Improved	29%
Child poverty rate	24.9%2015-2019	26.8%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Effective property tax rate	0.56%2015-2019	0.54%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	78.7%2015-2019	80.6%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	52%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3812015-2019	0.3912020-2024	+0.010	Within the margin of error	41%
Median household income	$68,0512015-2019	$78,8692020-2024	+16%	Within the margin of error	25%
Poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Rent as share of income	32.6%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+18 points	Declined	3%
Rent-burdened households	55.8%2015-2019	70.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Unemployment rate	7.9%2015-2019	7.8%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.5%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	−4.9 points	Improved	86%

“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 Estelle, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Estelle, 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, Estelle, Louisiana itself moved −8.1 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

16,341 residents (±1,406)

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

5,967 households (±411)

Estelle, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k18%1,055
$25k–50k15%†916
$50k–75k15%879

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,967 households (±411)

Estelle, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own90%5,362
Rent10%†605

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+7.1 points).

† 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

8,020 workers (±1,199)

Estelle, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone73%5,842
Carpool13%†1,043
Public transit0.4%†

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 New Orleans-Metairie, 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 Jefferson Parish, the county holding most of Estelle's residents.

Jefferson Parish has 11,728 employer establishments, 273 for every 10,000 residents (1.10× the US rate of 248; 1.16× Louisiana's), with 177,065 paid employees at an average annual pay of $60,036. The Census Bureau also counts 49,378 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 11,728; 49,378 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 273; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 177,065
Average annual pay: $60,036; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	1,111	25.9	1.24×About typical	13,470	$68,364	1,843
Restaurants and other eating places	921	21.5	1.17×About typical	15,187	$23,147	397
Specialty trade contractors	689	16.1	1.04×About typical	6,249	$67,895	3,657
Lessors of real estate	498	11.6	0.94×About typical	2,302	$55,488	4,528
Limited-service restaurants	418	9.7	1.21×About typical	6,883	$21,089	113
Legal services	403	9.4	1.75×More than typical	2,316	$77,195	706
Building equipment contractors	392	9.1	1.52×More than typical	3,770	$66,425	805
Offices of physicians	380	8.9	1.37×More than typical	5,554	$96,086	420
Full-service restaurants	364	8.5	1.10×About typical	6,887	$25,728	174
Insurance agencies and brokerages	362	8.4	1.92×More than typical	2,599	$93,524	713
Construction of buildings	292	6.8	0.90×About typical	2,344	$58,761	2,666
Clothing and accessories stores	285	6.6	1.83×More than typical	3,192	$24,480	558

Rank places for an industry Open Jefferson Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 429,256 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 $1.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Estelle, Louisiana: $91.21 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $1.5M; +11% vs FY2025
Per resident: $91.21; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Maritime Administration$1.5M99%
Defense Logistics Agency$12.7K0.9%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1.8MFY2017
1.1MFY2018
997.3KFY2019
2.6MFY2020
758.5KFY2021
1.4MFY2022
1.1MFY2023
1.2M

Top industries (NAICS)

Deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes water transportation · 4831$894K60%
Support activities for water transportation · 4883$587.9K39%
Plastics product manufacturing · 3261$10.1K0.7%
Clay product and refractory manufacturing · 3271$1,3750.1%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$6870.0%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$3560.0%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Estelle, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Estelle, Louisiana's figures are part of those of Jefferson Parish, LA ($478.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.3% of that total.

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

See federal money in Jefferson 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.

Estelle, Louisiana is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Jefferson Parish34100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

New Orleans-Metairie, LA35

Other cities and towns in Jefferson 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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Scores by category

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Trends