Mandeville, Louisiana

Area Profile

12,946 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Mandeville, in St. Tammany Parish.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 31% of 4,196 profiles measured

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How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 19% of 4,199 cities measured73
SchoolsTop 1% of 4,162 cities measured95
Growth3,535th of 4,224 cities measured32
Housing affordabilityTop 18% of 4,218 cities measured78
ClimateTop 22% of 4,225 cities measured78
Physical resilience3,236th of 4,226 cities measured30
Access3,164th of 4,226 cities measured83
Economic stabilityTop 44% of 4,226 cities measured61
The quick read

Mandeville ranks in the top 19% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.9% and median household income of $94,405. The unemployment rate is published for St. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains Mandeville, rather than for Mandeville alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 84% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 1% of published profiles for schools.

0 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 8% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The change in permitting is published for St. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains Mandeville, rather than for Mandeville alone.

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At a glance

Population
12,946
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$94,405
Top 21% nationally
Density
1,399/sq mi
9.3 sq mi of land
Median age
43.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Louisiana
Nearest major airport
MSY
28 mi · Louis Armstrong New Orleans Intl
Median home value
$376,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across St. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains Mandeville, is 3.9%, lower than in 65% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across St. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains Mandeville, grew 0.3% over the past year, to 126,516 employed residents.

49% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsSt. Tammany Parish, LA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$73,37652nd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftSt. Tammany Parish, LA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$68,70441st percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$11,4502024 ACS 5-Year$94,405Top 21%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,3792024 ACS 5-Year$60,827Top 10%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.2%Top 34%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.3 minBottom 41%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year49.0%Top 12%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year70.8%30th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentSt. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 2026126,516Top 40%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)St. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 2026+0.8%Top 33%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)St. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 2026+0.3%Top 30%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceSt. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 2026131,70360th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year81.5%Top 38%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSlidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$56,220Bottom 7%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageSlidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$43,710Bottom 4%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)St. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 49%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateSt. Tammany Parish, LA’s figureJuly 20263.9%Top 35%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year22.3%88th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202494k79k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $94,405 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 — Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons3,470$29,280
Registered Nurses3,190$81,160
Fast Food and Counter Workers2,970$23,380
Waiters and Waitresses2,520$15,080
General and Operations Managers2,470$102,450
Cashiers2,330$27,590

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains this city.

84% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 88% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.8 students for every full-time teacher across 13 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
13
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
84.3%
Top 2% in Louisiana
Reading proficiency
87.8%
Top 4% in Louisiana
The 12 largest of 13 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Mandeville High SchoolSt. Tammany Parish2,00614.588%88%
Fontainebleau High SchoolSt. Tammany Parish1,45113.379%84%
Fontainebleau Junior High SchoolSt. Tammany Parish78414.377%84%
Tchefuncte Middle SchoolSt. Tammany Parish68213.488%92%
Pontchartrain Elementary SchoolSt. Tammany Parish63612.087%92%
Lake Harbor Middle SchoolSt. Tammany Parish58213.589%92%
Mandeville Junior High SchoolSt. Tammany Parish51011.384%87%
Mandeville Elementary SchoolSt. Tammany Parish50811.382%87%
Gayle Sloan Middle SchoolSt. Tammany Parish50213.283%90%
Woodlake Elementary SchoolSt. Tammany Parish44210.587%92%
Marigny Elementary SchoolSt. Tammany Parish42212.8——
Magnolia Trace Elementary SchoolSt. Tammany Parish35511.587%87%

27.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Louisiana’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 92.9, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area is up 28% over five years, and up 3.5% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $3,108 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.83% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,331, close to the $1,422 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,331 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $53,200 a year, about 56% of the median household income here of $94,405.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,422 a month.

A median home at $376,100 costs 2.8 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $135,781, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
92.9

Prices here run about 7% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,331
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,422
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$376,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Mandeville’s median household income of $94,405, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure202392.9Top 16%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.5%59th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+27.5%12th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+52.4%5th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.62024 ACS 5-Year2.8Bottom 41%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year68.1%34th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3542024 ACS 5-Year6,00390th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,130Top 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,724Top 31%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,331Top 29%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1842024 ACS 5-Year$1,422Bottom 22%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$23,5812024 ACS 5-Year$376,10080th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$3732024 ACS 5-Year$3,10874th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$26,2882024 ACS 5-Year$135,781Top 10%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.11%2024 ACS 5-Year0.83%40th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year27.7%Top 47%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±462024 ACS 5-Year3578th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.6%58th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.4%47th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1632024 ACS 5-Year42188th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

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The most recent move in permitting was broadly flat, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 1% since 2020, reaching 12,973 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 0 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for St. Tammany Parish, LA, which contains Mandeville, rather than for Mandeville alone.

Federal tax returns show St. Tammany Parish, which contains Mandeville, gained about 0.5% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $73,376, above the $68,704 of households that moved out.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
+8%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202413k13k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been holding roughly steady, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.5%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
43%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$73,376
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$68,704
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Jefferson Parish, LA 2,120 people · 17% of arrivals
  2. Orleans Parish, LA 1,880 people · 16% of arrivals
  3. Tangipahoa Parish, LA 774 people · 6.4% of arrivals
  4. East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 350 people · 2.9% of arrivals
  5. St. Bernard Parish, LA 318 people · 2.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Tangipahoa Parish, LA 994 people · 9.0% of departures
  2. Jefferson Parish, LA 983 people · 8.9% of departures
  3. Orleans Parish, LA 857 people · 7.8% of departures
  4. Pearl River County, MS 600 people · 5.5% of departures
  5. Washington Parish, LA 358 people · 3.3% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for St. Tammany Parish, LA. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

202020212022202320242025540.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−100%).

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 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 61.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SLIDELL AP, 16.8 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND7.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year572024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals61.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year12024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year392024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals31°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
57
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

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Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and cold wave, with hurricane alone responsible for 58% of it. Cold wave is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneHigh
Inland floodingHigh
Coastal floodingModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, lightning, cold wave, wildfire, hail, tornado, strong wind, winter weather, ice storm, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

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.

Violent crime
138
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,537
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Mandeville's police department reported 138 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,537.

St. Tammany Parish has a modeled homicide rate of about 4.4 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.4 per 100,000 residents in St. Tammany Parish.

Homicide
4.4
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.9
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
21.4
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
17.1
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Mandeville’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Mandeville (St. Tammany Parish) rather than Mandeville itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Louis Armstrong New Orleans Intl at 28 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year94.8%Top 26%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle28 miBottom 30%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year4.1%Top 31%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louis Armstrong New Orleans IntlMSY28 mi10,104 ft
Stennis IntlHSA39 mi8,498 ft
Acadiana RgnlARA109 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Mandeville

2 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Mandeville with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Mandeville closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
7044826,338$95,682$340,300—
7047124,199$96,501$394,300—