Urania is a town in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It has 1,240 residents. Urania, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,312 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #205 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), pharmacies (high) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and hospital quality rating (low).
2Very low
Quality-of-life score
#15,312 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana
#205 of 262 in LA
Population
1,240 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
904.5 /mi²
FIPS code
2277490
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety35#10,150/15,637
Economy12#13,822/15,631
Housing36#9,631/14,977
Health5#14,888/15,609
Healthcare8#14,370/15,650
Environment23#11,891/15,453
Education9#14,193/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,396/15,650
Community19#12,703/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,621/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Urania, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “LaSalle 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Urania, Louisiana five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Urania, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Urania is mostly in LaSalle Parish.
Over about five years, Urania, Louisiana improved on 0 of 6 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.
Improved0
No measure improved by more than its margin of error.
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 6 measures
Change of every measure of Urania, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher
6.0%2015-2019
4.8%2020-2024
−1.2 points
Within the margin of error
20%
Broadband subscriptions
72.8%2015-2019
83.6%2020-2024
+11 points
Within the margin of error
63%
High school diploma or higher
61.1%2015-2019
65.6%2020-2024
+4.5 points
Within the margin of error
79%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4522015-2019
0.4092020-2024
−0.042
Within the margin of error
81%
Poverty rate
23.6%2015-2019
15.4%2020-2024
−8.1 points
Within the margin of error
89%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
18.9%2015-2019
9.9%2020-2024
−8.9 points
Within the margin of error
95%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 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.
No place that looked like Urania, Louisiana five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.
For comparison, Urania, Louisiana itself moved +5.7 points in standing on average over the same 4 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.
Household income
226 households (±66)
Urania, Louisiana
Louisiana share
Under $25k19%†43
Under $25k
19%±7.9 points
43 households±22 (90% margin of error)
22%in Louisiana
15%in United States
−17.8 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k31%†71
$25k–50k
31%±19.9 points
71 households±50 (90% margin of error)
20%in Louisiana
17%in United States
+11.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k14%†31
$50k–75k
14%±8.2 points
31 households±21 (90% margin of error)
16%in Louisiana
16%in United States
+9.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k14%†31
$75k–100k
14%±11.7 points
31 households±28 (90% margin of error)
12%in Louisiana
13%in United States
−10.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k12%†26
$100k–150k
12%±8.8 points
26 households±21 (90% margin of error)
15%in Louisiana
18%in United States
+0.4 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k8.4%†19
$150k–200k
8.4%±9.4 points
19 households±22 (90% margin of error)
7.3%in Louisiana
9.6%in United States
+5.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more2.2%†5
$200k or more
2.2%±3.5 points
5 households±8 (90% margin of error)
7.8%in Louisiana
13%in United States
+1.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−17.8 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of LaSalle Parish, the county holding most of Urania's residents.
LaSalle Parish has 377 employer establishments, 250 for every 10,000 residents (1.01× the US rate of 248; 1.06× Louisiana's), with 3,720 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,512. The Census Bureau also counts 931 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
377
931 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
250
US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees
3,720
Average annual pay
$48,512
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of LaSalle Parish by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 15,058 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
