70363Houma, Louisiana

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 70363.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity5398th of 6,210 published ZIP areas34
SchoolsTop 49% of 4,422 published ZIP areas52
Housing affordability3744th of 6,685 published ZIP areas76
ClimateTop 16% of 6,789 published ZIP areas81
Physical resilience5024th of 6,709 published ZIP areas32
Access5543rd of 6,791 published ZIP areas77
Economic stability6459th of 6,742 published ZIP areas24
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.5% and the Opportunity signal places 70363 in the bottom 13%.

In the public schools here, 30% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.3 students for every teacher.

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

At a glance

Population
24,127
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$46,748
Bottom 11% nationally
Density
308/sq mi
78.4 sq mi of land
Median age
34.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Houma
Louisiana
Metro area
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA
Nearest major airport
MSY
43 mi · Louis Armstrong New Orleans Intl
Median home value
$147,400
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.

Median household income of $46,748 is below 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$2,909$46,748Bottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,793$22,544Bottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate23.2%Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.7 minBottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher9.5%Bottom 11%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 participation48.9%Bottom 18%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
202120222023202447k39k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $46,748 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.

30% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
29.6%
Top 49% in Louisiana
Reading proficiency
37.8%
Bottom 46% in Louisiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Ellender Memorial High SchoolTerrebonne Parish81916.4
Acadian Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish65413.937%35%
Oaklawn Middle SchoolTerrebonne Parish59614.915%33%
Village East Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish40013.821%28%
Grand Caillou Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish36014.430%42%
Grand Caillou Middle SchoolTerrebonne Parish26714.826%36%
Dularge Elementary SchoolTerrebonne Parish24411.665%68%
School for Exceptional ChildrenTerrebonne Parish233.8
Louis Miller Terrebonne Career and Technical HSTerrebonne Parish0

84.9% 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

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Median rent of $1,077 takes 28% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
27.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,077
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$147,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.15Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate73.9%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±64210,345Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$96$1,077Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$20,404$147,400Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income27.6%Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate11.3%Top 49%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, 11.6 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 70363 rather than 70363 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 43 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louis Armstrong New Orleans IntlMSY43 mi10,104 ft
Acadiana RgnlARA80 mi8,002 ft
Lafayette Rgnl/Paul Fournet FldLFT91 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.

70363 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.

70363
Houma
Median household income
$46,748
vs
$58,194
Per capita income
$22,544
vs
$34,076
Population density
308/sq mi
vs
2,239/sq mi
Median home value
$147,400
vs
$205,900
Median gross rent
$1,077
vs
$1,058
Homeownership rate
73.9%
vs
72.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
9.5%
vs
23.8%
Poverty rate
23.2%
vs
16.3%
Median age
34.8
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.