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SheetLA-DESTREHAN-LA · Destrehan, LA 11,786 pop · income 78th 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 Destrehan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Destrehan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Crowley · lowest
27,826
Crowley · lowest
27,826 median HH income
24.8% of the leader · rank #1
Battle Ground · near
100,185
Battle Ground · near
100,185 median HH income
89.4% of the leader · rank #2
Destrehan · this city
100,189
Destrehan · this city
100,189 median HH income
89.4% of the leader · rank #3
Websters Cros… · near
100,192
Websters Cros… · near
100,192 median HH income
89.4% of the leader · rank #4
Plantersville · near
100,192
Plantersville · near
100,192 median HH income
89.4% of the leader · rank #5
Butte Creek C… · near
100,197
Butte Creek C… · near
100,197 median HH income
89.4% of the leader · rank #6
Sussex · highest
112,031
Sussex · highest
112,031 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Destrehan on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 11,786.
Destrehan ranks in the 78th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
78th
percentile, household income
66th
percentile, home value
16th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Destrehan, LA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 11,786 residents in Destrehan, a small town within Louisiana. Households in Destrehan report a median income of $100,189 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 11.1%. Typical homes in Destrehan are valued around $303,400, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. Educational attainment runs 41.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 4 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Living costs in Louisiana run below the national norm: the state registers 88.2 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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 Destrehan workers runs 25.9 minutes, with 84.3% driving alone and 6.7% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 62.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Destrehan'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 housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Destrehan, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Destrehan?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 41.3% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Destrehan?
Within Louisiana, the closest population matches are Woodmere (11,775 residents, $73,615 income); Minden (11,604 residents, $29,597 income); Covington (11,568 residents, $73,809 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Los Alamitos, CA (11,784 residents); Sussex, WI (11,795 residents); Smithfield, NC (11,798 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Destrehan?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Destrehan?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.9 minutes.
High income · poverty 11.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.2 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Louisiana average
B
City profile score · Destrehan, LA
70/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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 B+
$100,189
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Destrehan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 92/100 (A+) · 88.2 index
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,189
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.3%
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) · 11.1%
How does Destrehan compare to other US cities?
Where Destrehan sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value66% pricier than other cities
Median rent16% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Destrehan 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 Destrehan near the bottom of Louisiana's cities
Among the 477 Louisiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Destrehan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Destrehan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#26 of 426
94th percentile in Louisiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 477
0th percentile in Louisiana
Median Home Value
#19 of 419
95th percentile in Louisiana
Poverty Rate
#287 of 475
39th percentile in Louisiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#19 of 477
96th 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Destrehan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$303,40034th percentilemore affordable than 34% 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
Destrehan's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,848 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#949 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Destrehan sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,848 of 15,516 and #949 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$100,189Destrehan, LA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Destrehan, 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 Destrehan, LA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,786
Median Income
$100,189
Median Home Value
$303,400
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
11.1%
Labor force participation
62.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.3%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.9 minutes
Drive Alone
84.3%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
6.7%
Other
3.3%
Based on 5,741 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 Destrehan. 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 Destrehan 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 Destrehan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Destrehan 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, NCES CCD, 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.