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Bayou Blue CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Bayou Blue CDP is a Census CDP of 12,218 people across 23.27 square miles of land, lying across Lafourche Parish and Terrebonne Parish. Median household income is $63,958, 89.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Bayou Blue
What Bayou Blue is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area23.27 sq mi
- Water area0.26 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land525
- County holding the largest share of its areaLafourche Parish, 58.6 percent
- Counties this place lies inLafourche Parish 58.6 percent, Terrebonne Parish 41.4 percent
Bayou Blue CDP crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bayou Blue
How many people live in Bayou Blue
- Population12,218
- Median age33.4
- Population under 183,480
- Share under 1828.5 percent
- Population 65 and over1,277
- Share 65 and over10.5 percent
- Households4,253
- Family households3,196
- Share of households that are families75.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bayou Blue
Income and work in Bayou Blue
- Median household income$63,958 plus or minus $16,697
- Per capita income$29,677
- Civilian labor force5,742
- Employed5,438
- Unemployed304 plus or minus 140
- Unemployment rate5.3 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over7,991
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Bayou Blue
- Housing units4,573
- Occupied units4,253
- Vacant units320 plus or minus 170
- Vacancy rate7.0 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Owner occupied3,810
- Renter occupied443 plus or minus 157
- Ownership rate89.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$189,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,107 plus or minus $735
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.8 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Single family units2,963
- Share single family64.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes1,572 plus or minus 345
- Median year structure built1996
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Bayou Blue gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,676
- Commuting under 15 minutes840 plus or minus 203
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.0 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,607 plus or minus 361
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.4 percent
- Drove alone78.8 percent
- Carpooled9.3 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport0.5 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home9.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lafourche Parish, not Bayou Blue
Lafourche Parish context, not Bayou Blue figures
These are Lafourche Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bayou Blue measurements.
- Establishments in Lafourche Parish1,685
- Employment at those establishments, Lafourche Parish28,210
- Covered employment, Lafourche Parish34,853
- Average annual pay, Lafourche Parish$67,112
- Average weekly wage, Lafourche Parish$1,291
- Housing units permitted, Lafourche Parish323
- Of those, single family, Lafourche Parish315
- County product, 2024, Lafourche Parish$6,287,199,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lafourche Parish5.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lafourche Parish$48,647
Every figure in this section is published for Lafourche Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Bayou Blue. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Bayou Blue questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bayou Blue, Louisiana?
12,218, in 4,253 households. Bayou Blue CDP covers 23.27 square miles of land, which is 525 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bayou Blue in?
Bayou Blue lies in more than one. By area it is 58.6 percent in Lafourche Parish, 41.4 percent in Terrebonne Parish. This page sits under Lafourche Parish because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Bayou Blue?
$63,958. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $189,100. Median gross rent is $1,107 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Bayou Blue figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lafourche Parish as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Bayou Blue.
Is zoning published for Bayou Blue?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.