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Port Sulphur CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Port Sulphur CDP is a Census CDP of 1,593 people across 5.41 square miles of land, in Plaquemines Parish. Median household income is $52,289, 88.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Port Sulphur
What Port Sulphur is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area5.41 sq mi
- Water area3 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land294 plus or minus 83
- 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.
Port Sulphur
How many people live in Port Sulphur
- Population1,593 plus or minus 447
- Median age40.6 plus or minus 15.0
- Population under 18338 plus or minus 156
- Share under 1821.2 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Population 65 and over280 plus or minus 127
- Share 65 and over17.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Households578 plus or minus 144
- Family households433 plus or minus 146
- Share of households that are families74.9 percent plus or minus 17.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Sulphur
Income and work in Port Sulphur
- Median household income$52,289 plus or minus $26,946
- Per capita income$21,509 plus or minus $4,950
- Civilian labor force580 plus or minus 240
- Employed507 plus or minus 228
- Unemployed73 plus or minus 101
- Unemployment rate12.6 percent plus or minus 16.6
- Adults 25 and over995 plus or minus 268
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.8 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.8 percent plus or minus 9.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Sulphur
Housing in Port Sulphur
- Housing units684 plus or minus 162
- Occupied units578 plus or minus 144
- Vacant units106 plus or minus 69
- Vacancy rate15.5 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Owner occupied513 plus or minus 174
- Renter occupied65 plus or minus 58
- Ownership rate88.8 percent plus or minus 20.4
- Median owner-occupied home value$84,200
- Single family units57 plus or minus 50
- Share single family8.3 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes627 plus or minus 166
- Median year structure built2005
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Sulphur
How Port Sulphur gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute487 plus or minus 231
- Commuting under 15 minutes132 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.1 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more226 plus or minus 162
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.4 percent plus or minus 25.0
- Drove alone90.8 percent
- Carpooled6.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plaquemines Parish, not Port Sulphur
Plaquemines Parish context, not Port Sulphur 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 Port Sulphur 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 Port Sulphur. 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
Port Sulphur questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Port Sulphur, Louisiana?
1,593, in 578 households. Port Sulphur CDP covers 5.41 square miles of land, which is 294 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Port Sulphur 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 Port Sulphur?
$52,289. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $84,200. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Port Sulphur 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 Port Sulphur.
Is zoning published for Port Sulphur?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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