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Port Barre town, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Port Barre town is a Census town of 2,275 people across 1.08 square miles of land, in St. Landry Parish. Median household income is $41,278, 61.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Port Barre
What Port Barre is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.08 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,111 plus or minus 610
- 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.
Port Barre
How many people live in Port Barre
- Population2,275 plus or minus 657
- Median age28.0 plus or minus 6.6
- Population under 18782 plus or minus 282
- Share under 1834.4 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Population 65 and over195 plus or minus 73
- Share 65 and over8.6 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Households846
- Family households572 plus or minus 148
- Share of households that are families67.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Barre
Income and work in Port Barre
- Median household income$41,278 plus or minus $11,879
- Per capita income$20,890 plus or minus $4,802
- Civilian labor force908 plus or minus 241
- Employed868 plus or minus 240
- Unemployed40 plus or minus 31
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over1,212 plus or minus 243
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.2 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Barre
Housing in Port Barre
- Housing units1,022
- Occupied units846
- Vacant units176 plus or minus 91
- Vacancy rate17.2 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Owner occupied523 plus or minus 136
- Renter occupied323 plus or minus 116
- Ownership rate61.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$75,700 plus or minus $20,073
- Median gross rent, monthly$881
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.6 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Single family units556 plus or minus 141
- Share single family54.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more116 plus or minus 70
- Share in buildings of two or more11.4 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Mobile homes350 plus or minus 140
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Barre
How Port Barre gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute778 plus or minus 224
- Commuting under 15 minutes249 plus or minus 135
- Share commuting under 15 minutes32.0 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more336 plus or minus 151
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more43.2 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Drove alone79.5 percent
- Carpooled16.4 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.1 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
St. Landry Parish, not Port Barre
St. Landry Parish context, not Port Barre 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 Port Barre 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 Port Barre. 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
Port Barre questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Port Barre, Louisiana?
2,275, in 846 households. Port Barre town covers 1.08 square miles of land, which is 2,111 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Port Barre 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 Port Barre?
$41,278. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $75,700. Median gross rent is $881 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 Port Barre 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 Port Barre.
Is zoning published for Port Barre?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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