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Mer Rouge village, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Mer Rouge village is a Census village of 437 people across 1.17 square miles of land, in Morehouse Parish. Median household income is $56,583, 55.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Mer Rouge
What Mer Rouge is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area1.17 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land373 plus or minus 99
- County holding the largest share of its areaMorehouse Parish, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mer Rouge
How many people live in Mer Rouge
- Population437 plus or minus 116
- Median age58.4 plus or minus 14.4
- Population under 1845 plus or minus 41
- Share under 1810.3 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Population 65 and over147 plus or minus 58
- Share 65 and over33.6 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Households229 plus or minus 69
- Family households108 plus or minus 52
- Share of households that are families47.2 percent plus or minus 17.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mer Rouge
Income and work in Mer Rouge
- Median household income$56,583 plus or minus $19,589
- Per capita income$38,142 plus or minus $11,046
- Civilian labor force198 plus or minus 77
- Employed176 plus or minus 72
- Unemployed22 plus or minus 30
- Unemployment rate11.1 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Adults 25 and over374 plus or minus 97
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.5 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mer Rouge
Housing in Mer Rouge
- Housing units291 plus or minus 78
- Occupied units229 plus or minus 69
- Vacant units62 plus or minus 39
- Vacancy rate21.3 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Owner occupied128 plus or minus 54
- Renter occupied101 plus or minus 54
- Ownership rate55.9 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$66,000 plus or minus $42,827
- Median gross rent, monthly$775 plus or minus $267
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.4 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Single family units219 plus or minus 73
- Share single family75.3 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Units in buildings of two or more33 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more11.3 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Mobile homes39 plus or minus 35
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mer Rouge
How Mer Rouge gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute156 plus or minus 67
- Commuting under 15 minutes65 plus or minus 39
- Share commuting under 15 minutes41.7 percent plus or minus 17.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more62 plus or minus 37
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more39.7 percent plus or minus 16.8
- Drove alone86.9 percent
- Carpooled1.7 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home11.4 percent plus or minus 12.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Morehouse Parish, not Mer Rouge
Morehouse Parish context, not Mer Rouge figures
These are Morehouse Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mer Rouge measurements.
- Establishments in Morehouse Parish439
- Employment at those establishments, Morehouse Parish5,329
- Covered employment, Morehouse Parish6,213
- Average annual pay, Morehouse Parish$44,568
- Average weekly wage, Morehouse Parish$857
- Housing units permitted, Morehouse Parish14
- Of those, single family, Morehouse Parish14
- County product, 2024, Morehouse Parish$754,781,000
- County product change over the prior year, Morehouse Parish4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Morehouse Parish$32,355
Every figure in this section is published for Morehouse Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Mer Rouge. 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
Mer Rouge questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mer Rouge, Louisiana?
437, in 229 households. Mer Rouge village covers 1.17 square miles of land, which is 373 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mer Rouge in?
Morehouse Parish, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Mer Rouge?
$56,583. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $66,000. Median gross rent is $775 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 Mer Rouge figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Morehouse 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 Mer Rouge.
Is zoning published for Mer Rouge?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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