70802
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA · Baton Rouge, LA metro · population 25,118
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $31 (-8%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,636 -5%
- $72,878$69,242 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $31,364 -31%
- $100,605$69,242 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- 70802$363
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in zip 70802 fell 5.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 70802 rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 70802 runs $612/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $624 in Aug 2026.
That is $476 a month against $1,088 rent: a $363 mortgage payment, plus $38 property tax and $74 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 70802
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$476
- Renting$1,088
- Mortgage only$363
Property tax · $38/mo 0.67% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $74/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Baton Rouge, LA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 70802
Against the Baton Rouge, LA metro and the national benchmark.
- 70802$1,088
- Baton Rouge$1,366
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 70802
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 70802$69,242
- Baton Rouge$246,247
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 70805 | Baton Rouge | 23,288 | $925 | $58,562 |
| 3.0 | 70806 | Baton Rouge | 28,302 | $1,310 | $246,747 |
| 3.5 | 70808 | Baton Rouge | 35,843 | $1,466 | $357,018 |
| 5.3 | 70812 | Baton Rouge | 11,007 | $1,225 | $127,568 |
| 5.5 | 70820 | Baton Rouge | 23,377 | $1,328 | $239,657 |
| 6.5 | 70815 | Baton Rouge | 31,024 | $931 | $217,895 |
| 6.8 | 70811 | Baton Rouge | 12,154 | $1,199 | $162,520 |
| 6.8 | 70836 | Baton Rouge | 501 | $1,373 | — |
| 6.9 | 70807 | Baton Rouge | 15,300 | $1,250 | $94,738 |
| 7.2 | 70809 | Baton Rouge | 25,732 | $1,380 | $309,777 |
| 7.3 | 70814 | Baton Rouge | 11,921 | — | $211,279 |
| 8.4 | 70710 | Addis | 7,252 | $1,720 | $278,371 |
| 8.4 | 70719 | Brusly | 4,856 | — | $263,128 |
| 9.0 | 70810 | Baton Rouge | 42,659 | $1,540 | $335,976 |
| 9.3 | 70816 | Baton Rouge | 45,718 | $1,055 | $238,386 |
| 9.3 | 70767 | Port Allen | 14,900 | $1,850 | $214,688 |
| 10.0 | 70818 | Baton Rouge | 9,370 | $1,674 | $272,958 |
| 10.0 | 70714 | Baker | 17,433 | $1,212 | $182,376 |
| 10.2 | 70819 | Baton Rouge | 4,322 | — | $179,078 |
| 12.6 | 70817 | Baton Rouge | 33,482 | $1,526 | $306,896 |
| 13.9 | 70776 | Saint Gabriel | 7,100 | — | $269,603 |
| 14.1 | 70791 | Zachary | 30,385 | $1,694 | $266,282 |
| 16.2 | 70726 | Denham Springs | 63,575 | $1,507 | $250,152 |
| 16.3 | 70739 | Greenwell Springs | 14,877 | — | $290,641 |
| 17.0 | 70769 | Prairieville | 49,278 | $2,074 | $341,623 |
| 17.2 | 70764 | Plaquemine | 14,757 | — | $172,283 |
| 17.8 | 70770 | Pride | 3,787 | — | $251,948 |
| 18.9 | 70749 | Jarreau | 1,701 | — | $235,592 |
| 19.5 | 70734 | Geismar | 9,213 | — | $381,020 |
| 19.6 | 70762 | Oscar | 895 | — | $308,227 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.