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Lawtell CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Lawtell CDP is a Census CDP of 1,171 people across 4.15 square miles of land, in St. Landry Parish. 84.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Lawtell
What Lawtell is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.15 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land282 plus or minus 132
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Landry 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.
Lawtell
How many people live in Lawtell
- Population1,171 plus or minus 548
- Median age49.8 plus or minus 19.5
- Population under 18300 plus or minus 180
- Share under 1825.6 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over389 plus or minus 195
- Share 65 and over33.2 percent
- Households581 plus or minus 180
- Family households226 plus or minus 163
- Share of households that are families38.9 percent plus or minus 25.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lawtell
Income and work in Lawtell
- Per capita income$24,601 plus or minus $11,647
- Civilian labor force411 plus or minus 289
- Employed402 plus or minus 267
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 42
- Unemployment rate2.2 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Adults 25 and over836 plus or minus 359
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.9 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.0 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lawtell
Housing in Lawtell
- Housing units581 plus or minus 180
- Occupied units581 plus or minus 180
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied490 plus or minus 170
- Renter occupied91 plus or minus 91
- Ownership rate84.3 percent
- Single family units382 plus or minus 171
- Share single family65.7 percent plus or minus 21.1
- Units in buildings of two or more47 plus or minus 65
- Share in buildings of two or more8.1 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Mobile homes152 plus or minus 131
- Median year structure built1983
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lawtell
How Lawtell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute402 plus or minus 267
- Commuting under 15 minutes125 plus or minus 176
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.1 percent plus or minus 38.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more115 plus or minus 115
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.6 percent plus or minus 21.4
- Drove alone60.0 percent plus or minus 51.1
- Carpooled22.4 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Public transport8.2 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
St. Landry Parish, not Lawtell
St. Landry Parish context, not Lawtell figures
These are St. Landry Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lawtell measurements.
- Establishments in St. Landry Parish1,559
- Employment at those establishments, St. Landry Parish21,089
- Covered employment, St. Landry Parish23,554
- Average annual pay, St. Landry Parish$47,117
- Average weekly wage, St. Landry Parish$906
- Housing units permitted, St. Landry Parish139
- Of those, single family, St. Landry Parish139
- County product, 2024, St. Landry Parish$3,177,606,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Landry Parish0.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Landry Parish$43,487
Every figure in this section is published for St. Landry Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Lawtell. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- 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
Lawtell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lawtell, Louisiana?
1,171, in 581 households. Lawtell CDP covers 4.15 square miles of land, which is 282 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lawtell in?
St. Landry Parish, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Lawtell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Landry 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 Lawtell.
Is zoning published for Lawtell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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