70360Houma, Louisiana

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 70360.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3126th of 6,210 published ZIP areas55
SchoolsTop 42% of 4,422 published ZIP areas57
Housing affordabilityTop 19% of 6,685 published ZIP areas96
ClimateTop 16% of 6,789 published ZIP areas81
Physical resilience5024th of 6,709 published ZIP areas32
Access5581st of 6,791 published ZIP areas77
Economic stability4357th of 6,742 published ZIP areas51
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.5% and median household income $84,890, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 16% of median household income and the median home is 3.4 times it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, coastal flooding and drought.

At a glance

Population
28,574
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$84,890
Top 32% nationally
Density
475/sq mi
60.1 sq mi of land
Median age
39.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Houma
Louisiana
Metro area
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA
Nearest major airport
MSY
44 mi · Louis Armstrong New Orleans Intl
Median home value
$286,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.5% is lower than 48% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.4% over the past year, to 13,600 employed residents.

33% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 71% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,277$84,890Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,483$43,372Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.3%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.2 minBottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher32.9%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,600Bottom 7%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.6%Bottom 25%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.4%Top 38%June 2026
Labor force14,235Bottom 7%June 2026
Labor force participation60.8%Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$55,870Bottom 7%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$45,610Bottom 9%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.2%Top 43%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.5%Top 48%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202485k76k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $84,890 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Sailors and Marine Oilers2,140$48,500
Cashiers2,070$25,990
Retail Salespersons2,060$29,220
Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels2,040$103,780
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand2,000$33,310
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,990$22,280

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Houma, LA, the city containing this ZIP code.

32% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 52% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
31.6%
Top 44% in Louisiana
Reading proficiency
52.2%
Top 26% in Louisiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Terrebonne High SchoolTerrebonne Parish1,34619.8
Mulberry Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish78916.453%73%
Houma Junior High SchoolTerrebonne Parish67316.423%48%
Evergreen Junior High SchoolTerrebonne Parish62217.321%44%
Southdown Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish57216.324%37%

67.2% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Louisiana’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,167 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,167
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$286,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.37Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate72.0%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±58712,418Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$100$1,167Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,684$286,000Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.5%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.3%Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 65.4 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HOUMA, 4.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND9.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation65.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing29°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

32 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, coastal flooding and drought.

HurricaneHigh
Coastal floodingElevated
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, tornado, lightning, cold wave, inland flooding, hail, winter weather, earthquake, strong wind, wildfire, landslide, ice storm.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Terrebonne Parish records 5.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 11.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 28.0 per 100,000 residents in Terrebonne Parish.

Homicide
5.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
28.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Terrebonne Parish as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 70360 rather than 70360 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 44 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louis Armstrong New Orleans IntlMSY44 mi10,104 ft
Acadiana RgnlARA72 mi8,002 ft
Lafayette Rgnl/Paul Fournet FldLFT83 mi8,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

70360 vs Houma

How this ZIP area compares with Houma as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

70360
Houma
Median household income
$84,890
vs
$58,194
Per capita income
$43,372
vs
$34,076
Population density
475/sq mi
vs
2,239/sq mi
Median home value
$286,000
vs
$205,900
Median gross rent
$1,167
vs
$1,058
Homeownership rate
72.0%
vs
72.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
32.9%
vs
23.8%
Poverty rate
11.3%
vs
16.3%
Median age
39.9
vs
34.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.