Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,216, settled in 1879.
New Roads gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $155K, 2.2 years of the Baton Rouge metro’s $70K median household income. It grades C overall, 75th among Louisiana's 161 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 96% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household income is $51K, and 25% of residents live below the poverty line. On hazard risk, just 19 of Louisiana’s 255 towns do better. New Roads has 8 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse and St. Francis Chapel. Among 161 Louisiana towns, just 4 have a higher share of residents 65 or older than New Roads.
Where New Roads beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | New Roads | LA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults who have had a stroke | 6.4% | 4.3% |
Where New Roads’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 New Roads is from typical.
Its grades run from A for cost of living (better than 92% of comparable towns) to D− for health (better than 4%), so the C overall blends very different results.
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Census counts: 770 in 1900, 4,549 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1902 and 4 maps from 1953 on.
8 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in New Roads, 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 New Roads.
New Roads carries less natural-hazard risk than most of Louisiana (mostly cold waves), trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and draws workers from Baton Rouge and beyond.
Within Louisiana it is less healthy than 66% of the 161 graded towns: much of Louisiana scores lower on these measures.
20% of New Roads adults have diabetes, against 16% in Louisiana’s towns and 12% across U.S. towns. 52% of adults have high blood pressure in New Roads. New Roads beats the Louisiana average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15.
| New Roads | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 52% | 44% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 34% | 25% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 17% | 16% |
| What stands out | New Roads | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 12.9% | 16.9% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 83.4% | 78.8% |
| More adults who have had a stroke | 6.4% | 4.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Pointe Coupee Parish school district. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosenwald Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 303 | C |
| False River Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 339 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within LA on state tests and graduation
2,754 jobs are based in New Roads, 1.6 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
About one in 5 of New Roads’s working residents works in town. Jobs based in New Roads grew to 2,754 in 2023, 486 more than in 2013. New Roads’ median household income is $51,000, close to Louisiana’s towns ($56,000) and below U.S. towns ($80,000).
| New Roads | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 22% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $51,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Homes are within reach (about $155K for the typical one, A for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 24 miles. At 2.2 years of the Baton Rouge metro’s $70K median household income, the typical home (about $155K) costs less against local pay than in 82% of Louisiana towns; that ratio is one input to its A for cost of living.
The typical New Roads home is worth about $155,000, up 3.5% in a year, 27% below the Louisiana typical home.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
People 65 and older are 27% of residents (17% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 29% of residents (37% statewide). New Roads has lost 7.5% of its people since 2020, down to 4,216 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. The median age in New Roads is 41.9 years.
| New Roads | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 41.9 years | 37.8 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 20% | 20% | 29% |
59% women, 41% men
About 70 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±4.9 points). Across Louisiana, 51.1% of residents are women.
| New Roads | LA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.3% | 12.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.9% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.8% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.3% | 13.3% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8.8% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 5.2% | 11.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.9% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.5% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 13.3% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 14.9% | 12.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 36.4% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.3% | 20.4% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 13% | 7.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.4% | 17% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 8% | 10.1% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,200, single groups can be off by several points
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 89% of Louisiana towns, with expected losses of about $1,060 per resident a year; that rating is what its B+ for hazard risk is built on. 135 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 27 properties have flooded more than once.
New Roads’ FEMA risk score is 29 of 100. Since 1979, 135 flood insurance claims have been paid out in New Roads.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
New Roads has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 92°, January nights drop to 41° and snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The biggest park or preserve is False River Park, at 56 acres.
| New Roads | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.7% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. False River Park | — | 56 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of New Roads; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 New Roads residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Louisiana.
8 places in New Roads on the National Register of Historic Places.
8 notable people were born in New Roads.
City in Louisiana, United States
New Roads (historically French: Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The center of population of Louisiana was located in New Roads in 2000. The population was 4,831 at the 2010 census, down from 4,966 in 2000. In the 2020 census the population was 4,549, while at the beginning year of 2023 the census showed a population of 4,205 and expects to be under 4,000 by the years end. The city's ZIP code is 70760. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
New Roads grades C overall, better than 30% of U.S. towns and #75 of 161 in Louisiana. It grades D− for health and C+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D−.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.
8 notable people were born here, including Lindy Boggs and Shelton Fabre.
