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SheetLA-BROUSSARD-LA · Broussard, LA 13,791 pop · income 86th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Broussard
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Broussard on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waycross · lowest
37,398
Waycross · lowest
37,398 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #1
Mansfield · near
116,590
Mansfield · near
116,590 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Broussard · this city
116,613
Broussard · this city
116,613 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Valley Center · near
116,620
Valley Center · near
116,620 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Breinigsville · near
116,631
Breinigsville · near
116,631 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Cold Spring · near
116,635
Cold Spring · near
116,635 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Pickerington · highest
116,645
Pickerington · highest
116,645 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Broussard on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 13,791.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Broussard - the verdict
Nationally, Broussard sits in the 86th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
65th
percentile, home value
16th
percentile, median rent
25th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Broussard, LA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,791 residents in Broussard, a small town within Louisiana. Broussard households earn a median of $116,613 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Broussard's housing stock carries a median value of $301,000, and the median resident age is 33.9 years. Educational attainment runs 40.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 75.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 220 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 42% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2348.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Louisiana run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Louisiana at 88.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,007 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Louisiana run around $212, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Broussard workers runs 20.6 minutes, with 91.3% driving alone and 3.7% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 62.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Broussard's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Broussard, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Broussard?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 40.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Broussard?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Louisiana, the closest population matches are Luling (13,873 residents, $82,273 income); Pineville (14,268 residents, $51,583 income); River Ridge (13,170 residents, $84,464 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Worthington, MN (13,792 residents); Olean, NY (13,798 residents); Lumberton, TX (13,803 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Broussard?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2348.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 3% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
How far does income reach against housing in Broussard?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Broussard growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,278 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +16.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 220 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
13,521
2025 estimate
15,799
Period change
+16.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Broussard?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 91.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.6 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
91.3%
Work from home
3.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,555 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
88.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income A-
$116,613
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime D
195 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Broussard profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 92/100 (A+) · 88.2 index
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,613
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 40.5%
Violent crime: 48/100 (D) · 195 /100k
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Where Broussard sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Broussard's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Broussard highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Broussard, LA (this city): home $301,000, crime 2,348/100k
Worthington, MN : home $184,200, crime 1,205/100k
Olean, NY : home $90,500, crime 4,136/100k
Lumberton, TX : home $271,500, crime 538/100k
Waycross, GA : home $88,600, crime 6,061/100k
Mandeville, LA : home $363,300, crime 1,364/100k
West Monroe, LA : home $174,400, crime 7,042/100k
Gonzales, LA : home $212,800, crime 4,299/100k
How does Broussard compare to other US cities?
Where Broussard sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value65% pricier than other cities
Median rent16% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Louisiana and the picture shifts: Broussard ranks #22 of 60 Louisiana cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Broussard against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Louisiana only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Louisiana-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Broussard near the bottom of Louisiana's cities
Among the 477 Louisiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Broussard ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Broussard only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#9 of 426
98th percentile in Louisiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 477
0th percentile in Louisiana
Median Home Value
#22 of 419
95th percentile in Louisiana
Poverty Rate
#332 of 475
30th percentile in Louisiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#22 of 477
95th percentile in Louisiana
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Louisiana only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Broussard's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Broussard's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Broussard's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$301,00035th percentilemore affordable than 35% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Broussard's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,410 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#424 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Broussard sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,410 of 15,516 and #424 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$116,613Broussard, LA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Broussard, LA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Broussard, LA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)75.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,791
Median Income
$116,613
Median Home Value
$301,000
Median Age
33.9
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
75.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2348.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
194.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2153.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Broussard's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,521 residents
2021
13,865 residents
2022
14,216 residents
2023
14,597 residents
2024
15,324 residents
2025
15,799 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
220
housing units authorized
Single-Family
206
detached homes
Multifamily
14
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
16
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
155
155
0
$41.6M
2020
199
199
0
$53.5M
2021
203
203
0
$58.7M
2022
196
176
20
$57.6M
2023
323
161
162
$63.0M
2024
220
206
14
$57.5M
Permit volume increased 42% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.6 minutes
Drive Alone
91.3%
Carpool
1.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.9%
Work from Home
3.7%
Based on 7,555 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Louisiana statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $212
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Louisiana at $212 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Louisiana statewide averages, not a meter reading for Broussard. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Louisiana's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.2 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Broussard is $1,007/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Louisiana statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 62.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Louisiana statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Broussard sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Broussard compares to similar-size Louisiana cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.