Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Typical home $228,438 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,301 (+2.5%). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,619 +2%
- $223,819$228,438 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,214 +11%
- $205,224$228,438 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.
- Baton Rouge$1,199
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Baton Rouge, LA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Baton Rouge, LA rose 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Baton Rouge runs $269/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $387 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,570 a month against $1,301 rent: a $1,199 mortgage payment, plus $127 property tax and $245 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Baton Rouge
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$1,570
- Renting$1,301
- Mortgage only$1,199
Property tax · $127/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 · $245/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.
Living in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Baton Rouge is a city of 227,470 people in East Baton Rouge Parish. Half its households earn more than $49,994 a year and half less, against $63,071 across East Baton Rouge Parish; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Baton Rouge was 4.0% in August 2026, and East Baton Rouge Parish had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a city on the Mississippi River with a young population compared with much of the country. Incomes run below the parish's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than many people might expect. More households rent than own their homes, and a four-year degree is common among adults.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Baton Rouge are OUR Lady of the Lake RMC, East Baton Rouge Parish Schools and Amazon. Unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the parish has about as many jobs as it did the year before. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Tiger Stadium, a stadium a short drive away, is the best known place nearby, and the USS Kidd, a museum, is also a short drive away. In or beside town, Independence Park Botanic Gardens offers a botanical garden to stroll through. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 88,205households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. East Baton Rouge Parish had 270,640 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lsu Ben-hur Farm weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baton Rouge
- Our Lady of the Lake RMCGeneral hospital4,839FTE
- East Baton Rouge Parish SchoolsSchool district4,702FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,113
- Triad Electric & ControlsElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work2,966
- Excel Modular Scaffolding and LeasingScaffold erecting and dismantling2,270
- Cox CommunicationsTelecommunications carriers, wired431
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters418
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,832 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Baton RougeRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baton Rouge’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on East Baton Rouge Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Baton Rouge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baton Rouge$228,438
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Baton Rouge listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Baton Rouge26.09%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Baton Rouge34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Baton Rouge1,790
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Baton Rouge367
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Baton Rouge$244,276
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Baton Rouge97.03%
Zip codes with a Baton Rouge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baton Rouge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Baton Rouge
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70816 | Baton Rouge | 45,718 | $1,055 | $238,386 |
| 70810 | Baton Rouge | 42,659 | $1,540 | $335,976 |
| 70808 | Baton Rouge | 35,843 | $1,466 | $357,018 |
| 70817 | Baton Rouge | 33,482 | $1,526 | $306,896 |
| 70815 | Baton Rouge | 31,024 | $931 | $217,895 |
| 70806 | Baton Rouge | 28,302 | $1,310 | $246,747 |
| 70809 | Baton Rouge | 25,732 | $1,380 | $309,777 |
| 70802 | Baton Rouge | 25,118 | $1,088 | $69,242 |
| 70820 | Baton Rouge | 23,377 | $1,328 | $239,657 |
| 70805 | Baton Rouge | 23,288 | $925 | $58,562 |
| 70807 | Baton Rouge | 15,300 | $1,250 | $94,738 |
| 70811 | Baton Rouge | 12,154 | $1,199 | $162,520 |
| 70814 | Baton Rouge | 11,921 | — | $211,279 |
| 70812 | Baton Rouge | 11,007 | $1,225 | $127,568 |
| 70818 | Baton Rouge | 9,370 | $1,674 | $272,958 |
| 70819 | Baton Rouge | 4,322 | — | $179,078 |