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Melville town, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Melville town is a Census town of 589 people across 1.26 square miles of land, in St. Landry Parish. Median household income is $35,500, 61.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Melville
What Melville is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.26 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land469 plus or minus 177
- 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.
Melville
How many people live in Melville
- Population589 plus or minus 222
- Median age45.5 plus or minus 15.9
- Population under 18120 plus or minus 82
- Share under 1820.4 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Population 65 and over196 plus or minus 69
- Share 65 and over33.3 percent plus or minus 17.1
- Households242 plus or minus 77
- Family households149 plus or minus 66
- Share of households that are families61.6 percent plus or minus 19.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melville
Income and work in Melville
- Median household income$35,500 plus or minus $28,749
- Per capita income$19,576
- Civilian labor force198 plus or minus 97
- Employed186 plus or minus 96
- Unemployed12 plus or minus 20
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Adults 25 and over415 plus or minus 141
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.9 percent plus or minus 39.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.2 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.9 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melville
Housing in Melville
- Housing units371 plus or minus 85
- Occupied units242 plus or minus 77
- Vacant units129 plus or minus 54
- Vacancy rate34.8 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Owner occupied148 plus or minus 55
- Renter occupied94 plus or minus 49
- Ownership rate61.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$71,700 plus or minus $41,471
- Single family units217 plus or minus 65
- Share single family58.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more99 plus or minus 51
- Share in buildings of two or more26.7 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Mobile homes55 plus or minus 36
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melville
How Melville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute147 plus or minus 91
- Commuting under 15 minutes26 plus or minus 30
- Share commuting under 15 minutes17.7 percent plus or minus 17.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more96 plus or minus 87
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more65.3 percent plus or minus 43.1
- Drove alone51.6 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Carpooled27.4 percent plus or minus 40.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home21.0 percent plus or minus 19.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
St. Landry Parish, not Melville
St. Landry Parish context, not Melville 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 Melville 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 Melville. 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
Melville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Melville, Louisiana?
589, in 242 households. Melville town covers 1.26 square miles of land, which is 469 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Melville in?
St. Landry 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 Melville?
$35,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $71,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Melville 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 Melville.
Is zoning published for Melville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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