Luling, Louisiana

Area Profile

13,960 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Luling, in St. Charles Parish.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 50% of 3,904 published cities56
Schools1345th of 2,668 published cities51
Housing affordability2401st of 4,223 published cities76
ClimateTop 23% of 4,223 published cities77
Physical resilience3075th of 4,182 published cities33
AccessTop 29% of 4,226 published cities97
Economic stability2354th of 4,226 published cities58
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.6% and median household income $76,539, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

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

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
13,960
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$76,539
Top 37% nationally
Density
599/sq mi
23.3 sq mi of land
Median age
39.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
St. Charles Parish
Louisiana
Metro area
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
Nearest major airport
MSY
9 mi · Louis Armstrong New Orleans Intl
Median home value
$273,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.6% is lower than 39% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.5% over the past year, to 23,883 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$13,637$76,539Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,325$37,118Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate13.6%Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.7 minBottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher30.2%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment23,883Bottom 31%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.8%Bottom 37%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.5%Top 19%June 2026
Labor force25,024Bottom 31%June 2026
Labor force participation65.1%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,050Bottom 18%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,290Bottom 18%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 40%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.6%Top 39%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202483k75k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $76,539 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 — New Orleans-Metairie, LA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons12,030$30,400
Registered Nurses11,530$81,850
General and Operations Managers10,670$105,110
Fast Food and Counter Workers10,110$25,470
Waiters and Waitresses10,050$16,640
Cashiers9,320$28,370

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for St. Charles Parish, LA, which contains this city.

30% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 41% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 9.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
9.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
29.8%
Bottom 39% in Louisiana
Reading proficiency
40.7%
Bottom 39% in Louisiana
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Luling Elementary SchoolSt. Charles Parish6539.125%28%
Lakewood Elementary SchoolSt. Charles Parish50111.440%47%
Mimosa Park Elementary SchoolSt. Charles Parish4409.6
R.K. Smith Middle SchoolSt. Charles Parish3038.422%57%

51.8% 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 $1,625 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
25.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,625
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$273,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.58Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate87.0%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4115,559Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$149$1,625Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,101$273,800Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.5%Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.7%Bottom 27%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

7 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 46°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 63.3 inches.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEW ORLEANS INTL AP, 9.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND7.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation63.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low46°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing30°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

33 / 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, earthquake, winter weather, strong wind, wildfire, ice storm, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

St. Charles Parish records 7.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 31.6 per 100,000 residents in St. Charles Parish.

Homicide
7.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
31.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.3
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 St. Charles 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 Luling rather than Luling 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louis Armstrong New Orleans IntlMSY9 mi10,104 ft
Stennis IntlHSA63 mi8,498 ft
Acadiana RgnlARA92 mi8,002 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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Other cities in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
New OrleansOrleans Parish371,85347vs Luling
MetairieJefferson Parish139,729vs Luling
KennerJefferson Parish64,90453vs Luling
MarreroJefferson Parish32,540vs Luling
LaplaceSt. John the Baptist Parish28,343vs Luling
TerrytownJefferson Parish24,726vs Luling
ChalmetteSt. Bernard Parish22,616vs Luling
HarveyJefferson Parish20,915vs Luling
GretnaJefferson Parish17,38950vs Luling
EstelleJefferson Parish16,341vs Luling
River RidgeJefferson Parish13,312vs Luling
WoodmereJefferson Parish11,879vs Luling

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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.

ZIP codes in Luling

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7007013,960$76,539