Zip lookup · LA

70817
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA · Baton Rouge, LA metro · population 33,482

What it costs per month · 70817 $1,611/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+84%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $9,374 +3%
$297,522$306,896 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $42,964 +16%
$263,932$306,896 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 70817 $1,611 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 70817$1,611
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.

Typical home values in zip 70817 rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 70817 rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 70817 runs $584/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $662 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,110 a month against $1,526 rent: a $1,611 mortgage payment, plus $170 property tax and $329 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 70817

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.

$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,110 Renting $1,526 Mortgage only $1,611
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$2,110
  • Renting$1,526
  • Mortgage only$1,611

Property tax · $170/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 · $329/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 $1,526 as of Sep 2026
+3.2%year on year
Typical home value $306,896 as of Sep 2026
+3.2%year on year

Asking rent — 70817

Against the Baton Rouge, LA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 70817 $1,526 Baton Rouge $1,366 United States $1,932
$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2018 2022 2026
  • 70817$1,526
  • Baton Rouge$1,366
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 70817

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 70817 $306,896 Baton Rouge $246,247 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 70817$306,896
  • Baton Rouge$246,247
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 34 zips in range — sorting picks from all 34.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
4.4 70816 Baton Rouge 45,718 $1,055 $238,386
5.3 70769 Prairieville 49,278 $2,074 $341,623
5.5 70809 Baton Rouge 25,732 $1,380 $309,777
5.9 70726 Denham Springs 63,575 $1,507 $250,152
6.2 70836 Baton Rouge 501 $1,373 —
6.3 70810 Baton Rouge 42,659 $1,540 $335,976
6.8 70819 Baton Rouge 4,322 — $179,078
7.5 70815 Baton Rouge 31,024 $931 $217,895
9.0 70814 Baton Rouge 11,921 — $211,279
9.9 70808 Baton Rouge 35,843 $1,466 $357,018
10.0 70806 Baton Rouge 28,302 $1,310 $246,747
10.3 70776 Saint Gabriel 7,100 — $269,603
10.9 70737 Gonzales 49,084 $1,527 $295,231
11.6 70812 Baton Rouge 11,007 $1,225 $127,568
11.6 70734 Geismar 9,213 — $381,020
12.1 70820 Baton Rouge 23,377 $1,328 $239,657
12.1 70733 French Settlement 1,715 — $235,407
12.2 70818 Baton Rouge 9,370 $1,674 $272,958
12.6 70802 Baton Rouge 25,118 $1,088 $69,242
13.2 70805 Baton Rouge 23,288 $925 $58,562
13.5 70811 Baton Rouge 12,154 $1,199 $162,520
14.2 70754 Livingston 11,641 — $250,067
15.4 70774 Saint Amant 10,041 — $279,738
15.6 70739 Greenwell Springs 14,877 — $290,641
15.8 70785 Walker 23,921 $1,608 $253,072
16.5 70725 Darrow 943 — $266,425
17.0 70714 Baker 17,433 $1,212 $182,376
17.2 70706 Denham Springs 21,833 $1,648 $268,790
17.2 70710 Addis 7,252 $1,720 $278,371
17.7 70778 Sorrento 2,742 — $282,370

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.