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Empire CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Empire CDP is a Census CDP of 988 people across 5.22 square miles of land, in Plaquemines Parish. Median household income is $47,083, 91.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Empire
What Empire is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area5.22 sq mi
- Water area2.4 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land189 plus or minus 69
- County holding the largest share of its areaPlaquemines 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.
Empire
How many people live in Empire
- Population988 plus or minus 362
- Median age28.9 plus or minus 15.3
- Population under 18378 plus or minus 159
- Share under 1838.3 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Population 65 and over104 plus or minus 69
- Share 65 and over10.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Households378 plus or minus 109
- Family households229 plus or minus 94
- Share of households that are families60.6 percent plus or minus 17.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Empire
Income and work in Empire
- Median household income$47,083 plus or minus $36,945
- Per capita income$22,956 plus or minus $6,069
- Civilian labor force385 plus or minus 138
- Employed361 plus or minus 143
- Unemployed24 plus or minus 33
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Adults 25 and over504 plus or minus 149
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.7 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.7 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Empire
Housing in Empire
- Housing units476 plus or minus 118
- Occupied units378 plus or minus 109
- Vacant units98 plus or minus 66
- Vacancy rate20.6 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Owner occupied345 plus or minus 118
- Renter occupied33 plus or minus 36
- Ownership rate91.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$152,900 plus or minus $88,611
- Single family units62 plus or minus 49
- Share single family13.0 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes414 plus or minus 130
- Median year structure built2005
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Empire gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute246 plus or minus 131
- Commuting under 15 minutes115 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.7 percent plus or minus 24.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more80 plus or minus 70
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more32.5 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Drove alone64.6 percent plus or minus 30.8
- Carpooled11.3 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Worked from home15.5 percent plus or minus 20.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plaquemines Parish, not Empire
Plaquemines Parish context, not Empire figures
These are Plaquemines Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Empire measurements.
- Establishments in Plaquemines Parish644
- Employment at those establishments, Plaquemines Parish8,089
- Covered employment, Plaquemines Parish12,528
- Average annual pay, Plaquemines Parish$88,198
- Average weekly wage, Plaquemines Parish$1,696
- Housing units permitted, Plaquemines Parish88
- Of those, single family, Plaquemines Parish80
- County product, 2024, Plaquemines Parish$4,006,732,000
- County product change over the prior year, Plaquemines Parish7.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Plaquemines Parish$58,584
Every figure in this section is published for Plaquemines Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Empire. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Empire questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Empire, Louisiana?
988, in 378 households. Empire CDP covers 5.22 square miles of land, which is 189 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Empire in?
Plaquemines 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 Empire?
$47,083. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $152,900. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Empire figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Plaquemines 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 Empire.
Is zoning published for Empire?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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