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Lafayette, LA real estate and demographic information

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Lafayette zip codes70558, 70503, 70501, 70506, 70508, 70507, 70592, 70529, 70555

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POPULATION
110,261

Lafayette, LA Information

LAFAYETTE INFORMATION DETAILS
POPULATION 110,261
NUMBER OF HOMES AND APARTMENTS 46,840
LAFAYETTE HOME OWNERSHIP
% OWNER OCCUPIED 54.14%
% RENTER OCCUPIED 38.73%
% VACANT 7.13%
TYPE OF LAFAYETTE HOMES
SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED 63.49%
ROWHOUSES AND ATTACHED HOMES 3.61%
SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS 8.24%
COMPLEXES OR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS 21.84%
MOBILE HOMES 2.81%
OTHER 0.01%
SIZE OF LAFAYETTE HOMES
NO BEDROOM 2.30%
1 BEDROOM 15.91%
2 BEDROOMS 27.70%
3 BEDROOMS 39.56%
4 BEDROOMS 12.92%
5 OR MORE BEDROOMS 1.61%
AGE OF HOMES
NEWER HOMES (1995 OR LATER) 7.28%
ESTABLISHED, BUT NOT OLD HOMES (1970-1994) 53.04%
WELL-ESTABLISHED, OLD HOMES (1940-1969) 35.32%
HISTORIC (1939 OR BEFORE) 4.36%


LAFAYETTE REAL ESTATE INFORMATION DETAILS
MEDIAN HOME VALUE $181,016
MEDIAN RENTAL PRICE $646
HOME VALUE RANGE
$0-$91,000 15.37%
$91,001-$181,000 34.79%
$181,001-$362,000 37.13%
$362,001-$545,000 7.74%
$545,001-$726,000 2.54%
$726,001-$907,000 1.19%
$907,001-$1,360,000 0.57%
$1,360,001-$1,814,000 0.19%
> $1,814,000 0.48%


PEOPLE OF Lafayette DETAILS
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
UNDER 5 YEARS 6.35%
5 TO 17 18.79%
18 TO 24 13.06%
25 TO 34 13.91%
35 TO 54 29.03%
55 TO 64 7.66%
65 YEARS AND OVER 11.20%
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF ADULTS
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 81.70%
COLLEGE GRADUATES 31.28%
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME $35,996
PER CAPITA INCOME $21,031
INDIVIDUALS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL 16.31%
INDUSTRIES PEOPLE WORK IN Retail (12.79%), Healthcare (12.74%), Education (10.42%), Mining (8.08%), Accomodation (8.04%), Professional, scientific, and technical services (7.90%), Other (4.84%), Manufacturing (4.80%), Construction (4.32%), Finance (3.96%), Transportation (3.95%), Wholesale (3.86%), Public Service (3.73%), Administration (3.14%), Real Estate (2.55%), Information Technology (2.22%)
ATTENDING COLLEGE 9.53%
RACIAL MAKEUP
WHITE 68.70%
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 28.24%
AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 0.18%
ASIAN 1.52%
NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 0.02%
SOME OTHER RACE ALONE 0.37%
TWO OR MORE RACES 0.97%
HISPANIC OR LATINO (OF ANY RACE) 1.82%
ETHNICITIES PRESENT Other Groups (29.25%), Unclassified (19.22%), French (13.89%), United States or American (8.93%), French Canadian (5.69%), German (4.31%), English (4.21%), Irish (3.45%), Italian (2.34%), Acadian-Cajun (2.17%)
FOREIGN BORN 3.21%
LANGUAGES SPOKEN English (78.40%) , French (10.77%)
About Lafayette

Lafayette is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 110,261 people and 27 constituent neighborhoods, Lafayette is the fifth largest community in Louisiana.

Lafayette is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lafayette is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lafayette who work in sales jobs (14.44%), office and administrative support jobs (13.06%), and management occupations (8.98%).

Lafayette has quite a few people who use public transportation to get to work each day, primarily riding the bus.

Lafayette Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Lafayette is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.28% of adults in Lafayette have a college degree.

The per capita income in Lafayette in 2000 was $21,031, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,124 for a family of four.

Lafayette is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lafayette home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lafayette is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lafayette include French, French Canadian, German, English, Irish, Italian, and Acadian-Cajun.

The most common language spoken in Lafayette is English. Some people also speak French.

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