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SheetLA-JENNINGS-LA · Jennings, LA 9,679 pop · income 13th pct · 8 tracts
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 Jennings
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Jennings on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bastrop · lowest
30,069
Bastrop · lowest
30,069 median HH income
21.8% of the leader · rank #1
Midway · near
45,189
Midway · near
45,189 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #2
Burke · near
45,192
Burke · near
45,192 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #3
Jennings · this city
45,194
Jennings · this city
45,194 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #4
Marked Tree · near
45,197
Marked Tree · near
45,197 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #5
Hillsboro · near
45,197
Hillsboro · near
45,197 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #6
Flossmoor · highest
137,768
Flossmoor · highest
137,768 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 Jennings 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: 9,679.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Jennings - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Jennings places in the 13th percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
24th
percentile, home value
16th
percentile, median rent
6th
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: Jennings, LA
9,679 people live in Jennings, Louisiana - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Jennings households earn a median of $45,194 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 19.2%. Jennings's housing stock carries a median value of $140,800, and the median resident age is 38.4 years. 14.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 48.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Jennings (Construction Slowdown), down 80% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Jennings's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 4355.4 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 67.8°F with 63.5 inches of precipitation per year and 0.1 inches of snowfall.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,007 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $212 across Louisiana, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 33.3 minutes, with 82.8% driving alone and 2.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Jennings'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 population change to housing and income to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Jennings, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Jennings growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -565 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Jennings?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.2%, 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Jennings?
Within Louisiana, the closest population matches are DeRidder (9,812 residents, $58,596 income); Bastrop (9,408 residents, $30,069 income); Jefferson (9,984 residents, $56,875 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Canonsburg, PA (9,682 residents); Flossmoor, IL (9,666 residents); Picture Rocks, AZ (9,665 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Jennings?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.8°F, with 63.5 inches of precipitation and 0.1 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Louisiana is 62.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
67.8°F
Annual precipitation
63.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
62.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Jennings?
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 82.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 33.3 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
2.9%
Drive alone
82.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,552 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Jennings?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4355.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 91% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3347.8
Violent rate
1007.6
Total reported rate
4355.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 14.6% 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.
Matched public schools
3
Bachelor's degree+
14.6%
Poverty estimate
19.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$45,194
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
1,008 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Jennings profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 92/100 (A+) · 88.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 19/100 (F) · 14.6%
Poverty rate: 15/100 (F) · 19.2%
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,194
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,008 /100k
Where Jennings sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Jennings'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 - Jennings highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Jennings, LA (this city): home $140,800, crime 4,355/100k
Canonsburg, PA : home $192,100, crime 271/100k
Flossmoor, IL : home $309,100, crime 2,818/100k
Morehead City, NC : home $330,900, crime 3,434/100k
McCordsville, IN : home $327,900, crime 1,032/100k
Bastrop, LA : home $85,400, crime 6,256/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Jennings compare to other US cities?
Here's how Jennings stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value24% pricier than other cities
Median rent16% pricier than other cities
Safety6% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Louisiana alone, Jennings ranks #46 of 60 Louisiana cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Jennings 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 Jennings near the bottom of Louisiana's cities
Among the 477 Louisiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Jennings ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Jennings only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#263 of 426
38th percentile in Louisiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 477
0th percentile in Louisiana
Median Home Value
#214 of 419
49th percentile in Louisiana
Poverty Rate
#182 of 475
61st percentile in Louisiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#242 of 477
49th 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Jennings's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Jennings'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 Jennings's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$140,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 76% 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
Jennings's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,256 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,045 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Jennings sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,256 of 15,516 and #6,045 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$45,194Jennings, LA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Jennings, 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 Jennings, LA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,679
Median Income
$45,194
Median Home Value
$140,800
Median Age
38.4
Poverty Rate
19.2%
Labor force participation
48.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4355.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1007.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3347.8
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
67.8°F
Annual Precipitation
63.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.1"
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
Jennings's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,800 residents
2021
9,776 residents
2022
9,567 residents
2023
9,378 residents
2024
9,300 residents
2025
9,235 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
10
6
4
$1.7M
2020
7
7
0
$1.4M
2021
5
5
0
$0.8M
2022
3
1
2
$0.5M
2023
7
7
0
$1.1M
2024
2
2
0
$0.2M
Permit volume decreased 80% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
33.3 minutes
Drive Alone
82.8%
Carpool
9.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
2.9%
Other
3.2%
Based on 3,552 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 Jennings. 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 Jennings 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 Jennings sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Jennings 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.