Zip lookup · LA

70820
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA · Baton Rouge, LA metro · population 23,377

What it costs per month · 70820 $1,258/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$511 (+68%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $5,956 +3%
$233,700$239,657 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $32,387 +16%
$207,270$239,657 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 70820 $1,258 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 70820$1,258
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.

Typical home values in zip 70820 rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 70820 rose 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 70820 runs $320/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $399 in Oct 2023.

That is $1,647 a month against $1,328 rent: a $1,258 mortgage payment, plus $133 property tax and $257 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 70820

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.

$750 $1,000 $1,250 $1,500 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $1,647 Renting $1,328 Mortgage only $1,258
$750 $1,000 $1,250 $1,500 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$1,647
  • Renting$1,328
  • Mortgage only$1,258

Property tax · $133/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 · $257/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 $1,328 as of Sep 2026
+2.5%year on year
Typical home value $239,657 as of Sep 2026
+2.5%year on year

Asking rent — 70820

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

$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 70820 $1,328 Baton Rouge $1,366 United States $1,932
$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2022 2024 2026
  • 70820$1,328
  • Baton Rouge$1,366
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 70820

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 70820 $239,657 Baton Rouge $246,247 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 70820$239,657
  • Baton Rouge$246,247
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
3.5 70808 Baton Rouge 35,843 $1,466 $357,018
5.1 70710 Addis 7,252 $1,720 $278,371
5.5 70802 Baton Rouge 25,118 $1,088 $69,242
6.1 70836 Baton Rouge 501 $1,373 —
6.3 70810 Baton Rouge 42,659 $1,540 $335,976
6.5 70719 Brusly 4,856 — $263,128
6.6 70806 Baton Rouge 28,302 $1,310 $246,747
6.9 70809 Baton Rouge 25,732 $1,380 $309,777
8.4 70805 Baton Rouge 23,288 $925 $58,562
9.2 70815 Baton Rouge 31,024 $931 $217,895
9.3 70776 Saint Gabriel 7,100 — $269,603
10.1 70812 Baton Rouge 11,007 $1,225 $127,568
10.5 70816 Baton Rouge 45,718 $1,055 $238,386
10.8 70814 Baton Rouge 11,921 — $211,279
11.5 70767 Port Allen 14,900 $1,850 $214,688
11.9 70811 Baton Rouge 12,154 $1,199 $162,520
12.1 70817 Baton Rouge 33,482 $1,526 $306,896
12.1 70807 Baton Rouge 15,300 $1,250 $94,738
12.3 70764 Plaquemine 14,757 — $172,283
12.6 70819 Baton Rouge 4,322 — $179,078
14.4 70818 Baton Rouge 9,370 $1,674 $272,958
15.1 70769 Prairieville 49,278 $2,074 $341,623
15.4 70714 Baker 17,433 $1,212 $182,376
15.5 70734 Geismar 9,213 — $381,020
16.0 70788 White Castle 3,830 — $129,278
17.2 70726 Denham Springs 63,575 $1,507 $250,152
18.4 70737 Gonzales 49,084 $1,527 $295,231
19.5 70791 Zachary 30,385 $1,694 $266,282

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