Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Public schools that outperform most of Louisiana.
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Overall it grades B−, 25th of 161 graded towns in Louisiana. Its public schools beat 90% of Louisiana towns on state tests and graduation. Only 3 of the 161 Louisiana towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Maurice. Dr. Joseph Angel Villien House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Only 10 of the 160 Louisiana towns we compare have a higher median household income than Maurice.
Where Maurice beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice | PK–5 | 592 |
Dr. Joseph Angel Villien HouseWhere Maurice’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Maurice is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 330 in 1930, 2,118 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 2001 and 2 maps from 1955 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Maurice, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Maurice.
Maurice has schools in the top 5% of Louisiana, has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and looks healthier within Louisiana than nationally.
Its A ranks #6 of the 162 Louisiana towns we grade for schools.
Its public schools are run by the Vermilion Parish school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cecil Picard Elementary School at MauriceLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 592 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within LA on state tests and graduation
Since 1978, 33 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Maurice.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents leave Maurice for work: only 4% work in town. Jobs based in Maurice grew to 766 in 2023, 150 more than in 2013. 12% of Maurice residents live below the poverty line, below the Louisiana town median (20%) but above the median of U.S. towns (9.6%).
| Maurice | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.5% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 8.9% | 5.6% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Within Louisiana it is healthier than 79% of the 161 graded towns: much of Louisiana scores lower on these measures. Against the 9,868 U.S. towns with household incomes like Maurice’s, it is less healthy than 85%, so it trails even them.
Maurice beats the Louisiana average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 19% of Maurice adults binge drink, against 16% in Louisiana’s towns and 16% across U.S. towns. 29% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Maurice.
| Maurice | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 26% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 44% | 35% |
| What stands out | Maurice | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 9.1% | 12.4% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 11.7% | 15.2% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 76% | 78.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
January nights average 42.5°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.4°.
Maurice has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The January low in Maurice is 43°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Maurice | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 43°F | 42°F | 22°F |
| July high | 91°F | 92°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The typical Maurice home is worth about $251,000, up 2.7% in a year, 18% above the Louisiana typical home.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Adults 35 to 64 are 33% of residents (37% statewide). Maurice has grown 52% since 2020, to 3,215 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. Maurice’s median age is 33.6 years.
| Maurice | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 33.6 years | 37.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 22% | 20% | 29% |
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.5 points. Across Louisiana, 51.1% of residents are women.
| Maurice | LA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 16.3% | 12.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 20.4% | 13.3% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.6% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 5.6% | 11.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.7% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.1% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 12.5% | 12.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.2% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.3% | 20.4% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.9% | 7.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.4% | 17% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 3.7% | 10.1% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,200, single groups can be off by several points
Just 13 of its 1,851 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Maurice itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
0.2 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Maurice | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Village of Maurice Park | — | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Maurice. Close and well known come first.
9 mi Stadium & arenaCajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium37 mi Park & preserveSpaceX Starbase, Louisiana
18 mi GardenJungle Gardens
18 mi MuseumLongfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site33 mi MuseumZigler Art MuseumCajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium: Jcarriere, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jungle Gardens: Skb8721, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site: Mike (msm62166), CC BY 2.0
4 within 15 miles of the center of Maurice
About 4 of every 100 Maurice residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Louisiana.
5 notable people were born in Maurice.
Town in Louisiana, United States
Maurice is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 964 at the 2010 census and 2,118 for the 2020 Census. It is part of the Abbeville micropolitan statistical area.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Maurice grades B− overall, better than 54% of U.S. towns and #25 of 161 in Louisiana. It grades C for health and A for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
That is 4.1 years of the area's median household income ($60,892 across the Lafayette, LA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
5 notable people were born here, including Ezola B. Foster and Denise Boutte.
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