Town · East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Slaughter, Louisiana

Slaughter is a town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, part of the Baton Rouge, LA metro area. It has 1,250 residents. Slaughter, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 10 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,156 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #116 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), rent as share of income (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on public EV charging ports (low), depression (high) and child poverty rate (high).

10Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,156 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #116 of 262 in LA
Population: 1,250 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 228.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2270770

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety27#11,390/15,637
Economy57#6,699/15,631
Housing65#5,224/14,977
Health10#14,009/15,609
Healthcare26#11,612/15,650
Environment20#12,401/15,453
Education6#14,774/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,099/15,650
Community11#13,946/15,651
Leisure & amenities5#14,832/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Effective property tax rate · low0.16%
100/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Rent as share of income · low17.0%
98/100Louisiana 32.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Property crime rate · low307 /100k
97/100Louisiana 1,966 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationEast Feliciana Parish value
Job growth · high3.7%
96/100Louisiana -0.5%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataEast Feliciana Parish value
Unemployment rate · low2.1%
82/100Louisiana 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Child care cost burden · low23.8%
81/100Louisiana 30.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEast Feliciana Parish value

Weaknesses

Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Louisiana 1.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyEast Feliciana Parish value
Depression · high30.8%
4/100Louisiana 27.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Child poverty rate · high17.3%
4/100Louisiana 25.0%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Restaurants and bars · low3.7 /10k
4/100Louisiana 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEast Feliciana Parish value
Homicide rate · high13.2 /100k
4/100Louisiana 11.8 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataEast Feliciana Parish value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Louisiana 1.4 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEast Feliciana Parish value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
980 (2015-2019) → 1,250 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
69.0% (2015-2019) → 13.9% (2020-2024)
−55 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
44.6% (2015-2019) → 17.0% (2020-2024)
−28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
2.2% (2015-2019) → 17.3% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.7% (2015-2019) → 87.9% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.4× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+48%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, Slaughter, Louisiana improved on 2 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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

Rent / income−28 points44.6% → 17.0%
Broadband+13 points74.7% → 87.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Slaughter, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.7 min2015-2019	35.5 min2020-2024	+5.8 min	Within the margin of error	8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.4%2015-2019	16.7%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	74.7%2015-2019	87.9%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	74%
Effective property tax rate	0.23%2015-2019	0.16%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
High school diploma or higher	89.7%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+1.1×	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3682015-2019	0.3672020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	52%
Median household income	$64,9382015-2019	$72,4382020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	44.6%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	−28 points	Improved	100%

“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 Slaughter, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Slaughter, 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, Slaughter, Louisiana itself moved +5.7 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

1,250 residents (±301)

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

423 households (±96)

Slaughter, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k6.6%†28
$25k–50k23%†99
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

423 households (±96)

Slaughter, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own89%378
Rent11%†45

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

497 workers (±182)

Slaughter, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone91%†454
Carpool2.6%†13
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 East Feliciana Parish, the county holding most of Slaughter's residents.

East Feliciana Parish has 242 employer establishments, 126 for every 10,000 residents (0.51× the US rate of 248; 0.53× Louisiana's), with 4,287 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,055. The Census Bureau also counts 1,558 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 242; 1,558 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 126; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 4,287
Average annual pay: $42,055; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	17	8.8	0.57×Fewer than typical	67	$97,821	119
Ambulatory health care services	15	7.8	0.37×Fewer than typical	186	$53,995	53
Restaurants and other eating places	11	5.7	0.31×Fewer than typical	112	$14,339	12
Construction of buildings	10	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	18	$37,611	40
Religious organizations	9	4.7	0.84×Too few to compare	30	$19,200	—
Truck transportation	9	4.7	0.93×Too few to compare	24	$39,208	77
Banks and credit unions	8	4.2	1.29×Too few to compare	89	$61,011	—
Gasoline stations	8	4.2	1.28×Too few to compare	105	$23,943	—
General merchandise stores	7	3.6	2.06×Too few to compare	48	$20,833	4
Offices of other health practitioners	7	3.6	0.60×Too few to compare	41	$52,854	21
Architectural, engineering and related services	6	3.1	0.90×Too few to compare	25	$82,920	19
Automotive repair and maintenance	6	3.1	0.62×Too few to compare	15	$63,867	40

Rank places for an industry Open East Feliciana Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,216 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 $196.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Slaughter, Louisiana: $157 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $196.4K; +205% vs FY2025
Per resident: $157; US $1,994
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

Department of the Army$196.4K100%

Top recipients

OMEGA FOUNDATION SERVICES, INC.$196.4K100.0%
WEEKS MARINE, INC.$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

43.2FY2018
9.9MFY2024
64.4KFY2025
196.4KFY2026

What was bought

Construction & real property$196.4K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$196.4K100.0%

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

Slaughter, Louisiana's figures are part of those of East Feliciana Parish, LA ($2.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 9.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in East Feliciana 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.

Slaughter, 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.

East Feliciana Parish7100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Baton Rouge, LA33

Other cities and towns in East Feliciana 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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