ErwinvilleLA
The town was settled in 1895 and has 2,420 residents today.
Is Erwinville a good place to live?
The best of Erwinville’s subject grades is an A+ for cost of living; the weakest is a D for health. 53% of residents live below the poverty line in Erwinville, above both Louisiana’s towns (20%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). On cost of living, just 13 of Louisiana’s 253 towns do better. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. Erwinville has 7 places on the National Register. Erwinville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Erwinville for work
Where Erwinville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Erwinville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Erwinville is from typical.
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Moving to Erwinville: who provides what
Erwinville is unincorporated, so West Baton Rouge Parish and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Erwinville.
Erwinville is less healthy than nine in ten U.S. towns
The share of adults in Erwinville who worry about having enough food: 23%. In Erwinville, 17% of adults have diabetes, and 17% report frequent physical distress.
| Erwinville | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 44% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| What stands out | Erwinville | LA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.2% | 8.5% |
| More adults who have had a stroke | 5% | 4.3% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.7% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Erwinville’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
The top destinations are Baton Rouge (26%), Port Allen (7%) and New Orleans (3%). For most workers, Erwinville is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Its average trip to work stands at 27 minutes.
| Erwinville | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Erwinville’s year
July afternoons reach 92°, January nights drop to 41° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Erwinville, with hurricanes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 53% of U.S. communities. Federal aid has come to Erwinville households in 7 declared disasters; the latest was in 2021.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A home in Erwinville sells for about $198K at the median
In Erwinville, 77% of households are owner-occupiers.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Erwinville is conserved land
1.9 miles of trail. Erwinville’s concentration of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Tiger Stadium and 13 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Erwinville. Close and well known come first.
15 mi Stadium & arenaTiger Stadium
14 mi MuseumUSS Kidd
15 mi Stadium & arenaPete Maravich Assembly Center26 mi Theme parkBlue Bayou and Dixie Landin'
14 mi MuseumShaw Center for the Arts
14 mi MuseumYazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company DepotPhoto credits
Tiger Stadium: Daniel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Kidd: Cobatfor, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pete Maravich Assembly Center: Spatms, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shaw Center for the Arts: UrbanPlanet BR (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot: Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Erwinville
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Erwinville
About 4 of every 100 Erwinville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Louisiana.
About Erwinville
Unincorporated community in Louisiana, United States
Erwinville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Erwinville had a population of 2,275. U.S. Route 190 passes through the community.
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- Area
- 8.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 23 ft
- ZIP code
- 70729
Questions about Erwinville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Erwinville, LA expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $190,000, 11% below the Louisiana typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.