Scores by category

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

Safety70#4,652/15,637
Economy40#9,450/15,631
Housing40#9,012/14,977
Health22#12,219/15,609
Healthcare12#13,739/15,650
Environment19#12,591/15,453
Education37#9,925/15,649
Infrastructure51#7,629/15,650
Community6#14,685/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,406/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Maurice, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Vermilion 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

New homes permitted · high52.6 /1k
99/100Louisiana 2.8 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Violent crime rate · low53 /100k
97/100Louisiana 515 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion Parish value
Time spent in the emergency room · low104 min
95/100Louisiana 135 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesVermilion Parish value
Property crime rate · low386 /100k
94/100Louisiana 1,966 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion Parish value
Pharmacies · high2.6 /10k
91/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVermilion Parish value
Broadband subscriptions · high96.4%
89/100Louisiana 86.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Weaknesses

Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Louisiana 1.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyVermilion Parish value
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationVermilion Parish value
Natural hazard risk · high95.5
5/100Louisiana 71.72025Federal Emergency Management AgencyVermilion Parish value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100Louisiana 13.9United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationVermilion Parish value
Distance to an airport · high114 mi
7/100Louisiana 80 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauVermilion Parish value
Rent-burdened households · high62.7%
8/100Louisiana 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.

PopulationRising
1,711 (2015-2019) → 2,584 (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
High school diploma or higherImproving
78.6% (2015-2019) → 87.5% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$67,143 (2015-2019) → $90,833 (2020-2024)
+35%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateWorsening
4.5% (2015-2019) → 11.2% (2020-2024)
+6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
89.8% (2015-2019) → 96.5% (2020-2024)
+6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
7.8% (2015-2019) → 11.8% (2020-2024)
+4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Maurice, Louisiana improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Maurice, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.8 min2015-2019	26.7 min2020-2024	−1.1 min	Within the margin of error	61%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.4%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Broadband subscriptions	89.8%2015-2019	96.5%2020-2024	+6.6 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Effective property tax rate	0.49%2015-2019	0.49%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	16%
High school diploma or higher	78.6%2015-2019	87.5%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	−0.5×	Within the margin of error	93%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4002015-2019	0.3482020-2024	−0.052	Within the margin of error	84%
Median household income	$67,1432015-2019	$90,8332020-2024	+35%	Within the margin of error	66%
Poverty rate	7.8%2015-2019	11.8%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	37.4%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Rent-burdened households	65.0%2015-2019	62.7%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	64%

“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 Maurice, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Maurice, 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, Maurice, Louisiana itself moved +9.6 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

2,584 residents (±25)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,584 residents (±25)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

White75%1,932
Black6.7%†172
Hispanic or Latino5.1%†132

Education

1,768 residents (±166)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

No high school diploma13%†221
High school or GED28%498
Some college19%†342

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

930 households (±101)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k11%†103
$25k–50k10%†96
$50k–75k24%†225
$75k–100k10%†96
$100k–150k30%†280
$150k–200k7.8%†73
$200k or more6.1%†57

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $50k–75k (+12.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

930 households (±101)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own91%850
Rent8.6%†80

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+18.2 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

79 households (±45)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $75019%†15
$750–1,00020%†16
$1,000–1,50056%†44

Home values

850 homes (±106)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $150k16%†134
$150k–250k41%346
$250k–400k41%350

Age of homes

1,009 homes (±115)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

2010 or later55%557
2000–200913%†136
1980–199918%†183

Size of homes

1,009 homes (±115)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Studio0.3%†3
1 bedroom3.1%†31
2 bedrooms12%†126

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,168 workers (±135)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone66%773
Carpool23%†263
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.0%†12
Bike0.0%0
Work from home8.9%†104
Other1.4%†16

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+7.3 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,064 workers (±138)

Maurice, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under 15 min22%†239
15–29 min40%422
30–44 min22%†231

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Lafayette, 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 Vermilion Parish, the county holding most of Maurice's residents.

Vermilion Parish has 969 employer establishments, 170 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.72× Louisiana's), with 9,362 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,959. The Census Bureau also counts 5,277 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 969; 5,277 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 170; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 9,362
Average annual pay: $47,959; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	71	12.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	452	$52,524	240
Specialty trade contractors	66	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	359	$52,560	445
Restaurants and other eating places	64	11.2	0.61×Fewer than typical	972	$15,503	27
Building equipment contractors	38	6.7	1.11×About typical	155	$48,071	98
Legal services	32	5.6	1.04×About typical	45	$52,044	44
Services to buildings and dwellings	29	5.1	0.75×Fewer than typical	110	$30,600	575
Religious organizations	28	4.9	0.88×About typical	180	$17,083	—
Offices of other health practitioners	27	4.7	0.78×Fewer than typical	91	$38,385	57
Limited-service restaurants	26	4.6	0.57×Fewer than typical	494	$14,749	12
Full-service restaurants	25	4.4	0.57×Fewer than typical	430	$16,298	9
Management, scientific and technical consulting	25	4.4	0.65×Fewer than typical	32	$63,344	118
Gasoline stations	23	4	1.24×About typical	196	$23,862	4

Rank places for an industry Open Vermilion Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 57,141 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 -$190 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Maurice, Louisiana: -$0.07 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: -$190; −101% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.07; US $1,995
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

WET TECH ENERGY INC-$1900.0%

Spending by fiscal year

54.9KFY2019
193KFY2020
15.3KFY2021
29.1KFY2022
55.3KFY2023
8.7KFY2024
20KFY2025
-189.8FY2026

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Vermilion 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.

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

House

Clay HigginsR-LA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.7%

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.

Vermilion Parish18100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lafayette, LA31

Other cities and towns in Vermilion 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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