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SheetLA-VILLAGE-ST-GEORGE-LA · Village St. George, LA 8,880 pop · income 74th pct · 18 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 Village St. George
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Village St. George on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Eunice · lowest
36,356
Eunice · lowest
36,356 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #1
Haledon · near
94,178
Haledon · near
94,178 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #2
Chesapeake · near
94,189
Chesapeake · near
94,189 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #3
Village St. G… · this city
94,191
Village St. G… · this city
94,191 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lawrence · near
94,205
Lawrence · near
94,205 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #5
Maricopa · near
94,208
Maricopa · near
94,208 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #6
Bainbridge · highest
130,952
Bainbridge · highest
130,952 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 Village St. George 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: 8,880.
Village St. George ranks in the 74th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
74th
percentile, household income
56th
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: Village St. George, LA
Louisiana's Village St. George is a small town, with 8,880 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Village St. George brings in $94,191 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Typical homes in Village St. George are valued around $248,600, and the median resident age is 36.8 years. Educational attainment runs 42.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Louisiana run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Louisiana scores 88.2 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,007 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Louisiana run around $212, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Village St. George workers runs 22.1 minutes, with 80.1% driving alone and 12.0% 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 Village St. George'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 within-city variation to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Village St. George, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 18 Census tracts reveal inside Village St. George?
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.
PlainCities matches 18 Census tracts to this city.
What does the journey to work look like in Village St. George?
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 80.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.1 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Village St. George?
Within Louisiana, the closest population matches are Harahan (8,939 residents, $78,222 income); Merrydale (9,149 residents, $41,986 income); Eunice (9,261 residents, $36,356 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lansdowne, MD (8,879 residents); Bainbridge, OH (8,882 residents); Beaver Falls, PA (8,885 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 Village St. George?
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 3.6%, 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.
Above median income · poverty 3.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.2 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Louisiana average
B+
City profile score · Village St. George, LA
79/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
42.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B
$94,191
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Village St. George profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 92/100 (A+) · 88.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.2%
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $94,191
How does Village St. George compare to other US cities?
Village St. George measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value56% 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 Village St. George 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 Village St. George near the bottom of Louisiana's cities
Among the 477 Louisiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Village St. George ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Village St. George only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#32 of 426
92nd percentile in Louisiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 477
0th percentile in Louisiana
Median Home Value
#53 of 419
87th percentile in Louisiana
Poverty Rate
#416 of 475
12th percentile in Louisiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#15 of 477
97th 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Village St. George's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$248,60044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
Village St. George's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,719 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,174 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Village St. George sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,719 of 15,516 and #4,174 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$94,191Village St. George, LA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Village St. George, 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 Village St. George, LA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,880
Median Income
$94,191
Median Home Value
$248,600
Median Age
36.8
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
64.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.1 minutes
Drive Alone
80.1%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
12.0%
Based on 4,422 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 Village St. George. 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 Village St. George 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 Village St. George sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Village St. George 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, 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.