Grand PointLA
A town of 2,341.
Is Grand Point a good place to live?
The best of Grand Point’s subject grades are an A− for cost of living and schools; the weakest is a D− for hazard risk. 13% of residents are under 18 in Grand Point, where Louisiana’s towns sit at 24% and U.S. towns at 22%. Only 23 of Louisiana’s 250 towns score higher on incomes. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. On history, just 9 of Louisiana’s 254 towns do worse. The biggest park or preserve is Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area, at 30 acres. Grand Point has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Grand Point lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 9% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
How Grand Point grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Grand Point is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Grand Point: who provides what
Grand Point is unincorporated, so St. James 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 Grand Point.
Very high risk in Grand Point, with hurricanes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 93% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Grand Point’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Grand Point for work: only 2% work in town. 5.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Grand Point, against 20% in Louisiana’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Grand Point grew to 219 in 2023, 49 more than in 2013.
| Grand Point | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.1% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Grand Point, expect mild winters and hot summers
Grand Point has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Grand Point is 92°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Grand Point has set aside 2.1% of its land for conservation
2.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Grand Point | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.1% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area | — | 30 |
| 2. Paulina Park | — | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
On CDC estimates, Grand Point is less healthy than 52% of U.S. towns
Grand Point beats the Louisiana average on 14 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 21% of Grand Point adults binge drink. Among 162 Louisiana towns, just 8 have a lower share of adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance than Grand Point.
| Grand Point | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 17% | 16% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 27% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 26% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 44% | 35% |
| What stands out | Grand Point | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 14.1% | 22.5% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.8% | 18.1% |
| More binge drinkers | 20.5% | 16.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A larger share of households in Grand Point own their home than in the typical Louisiana or U.S. town
92% of households own their home in Grand Point.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Grand Point
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Grand Point
About 7 of every 100 Grand Point residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Louisiana.
98% of working residents leave Grand Point for work
Where Grand Point’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Grand Point’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Grand Point.
| Town | LA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Point | — | — | A− | — | A− | B− |
| Paulina | — | — | B− | — | A− | B− |
| Hester | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Grand Point and Paulina have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Grand Point and Paulina report no FBI crime data of their own. Hester isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Grand Point with a neighbor →
Questions about Grand Point
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Grand Point, LA expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $254,000, 19% above 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−.