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Central, Louisiana.

A city in East Baton Rouge Parish. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see East Baton Rouge Parish’s.

Living in Central, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Central is a city of 29,565 people in East Baton Rouge Parish. Half its households earn more than $89,554 a year and half less, against $63,071 across East Baton Rouge Parish; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Central was 3.1% 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 government.

People 29,565 in the 2020 census; median age 40.4
Household income $89,554 the median, give or take $13,282 · East Baton Rouge Parish: $63,071
Unemployment 3.1% Central, August 2026; 3.5% a year before
Homes 89% lived in by their owners; 11% rented
  • 11,496households
  • 35%of adults have a degree
  • 5%below the poverty line
  • 29 mintypical commute
  • 10%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Government11%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Building trades9%
  • Shops (retail)8%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 62° and 42°; warmest in August, 92° and 73° 40° 50° 60° 70° 80° 90° 100° J 62° 42° F M A M J J A 92° 73° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 62° and 42°; warmest in August, 92° and 73° 40° 50° 60° 70° 80° 90° 100° J 62° 42° F M A M J J A 92° 73° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baton Rouge Ryan Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Central

  1. Central Community School DistrictSchool district521FTE
  2. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters309
  3. Trade Construction CompanyFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe277
  4. DemcoDistribution of electric power271
  5. First Student248
  6. First StudentAcademies, elementary or secondary224
  7. Sterling PlaceHomes for the aged with nursing care170
  8. Corporate GreenLandscape care and maintenance services149

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,006 people in all. School districts come 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

  1. TornadoesVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. HurricanesRelatively high
  4. Cold wavesRelatively high
  5. Heat wavesRelatively high
  6. LightningRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Central’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.