PresquilleLA
A town of 2,062.
Is Presquille a good place to live?
The best of Presquille’s subject grades are an A for incomes and an A− for cost of living and schools; the weakest is a D− for hazard risk. 1.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Presquille, below both Louisiana’s towns (20%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). On hazard risk, just 7 of Louisiana’s 255 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. On history, just 16 of Louisiana’s 254 towns do worse. Presquille has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Presquille lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 20% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
How Presquille grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Presquille is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Presquille: who provides what
Presquille is unincorporated, so Terrebonne 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 Presquille.
The FEMA risk score in Presquille is higher than in most of Louisiana or the rest of the country
At 99 of 100, Presquille’s FEMA risk score is against 88 of 100 in Louisiana’s towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Presquille are less healthy than 90% of U.S. towns
Presquille beats the Louisiana average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 29% of Presquille adults have been diagnosed with depression.
| Presquille | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 14% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 26% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 44% | 35% |
| What stands out | Presquille | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 8.5% | 12.4% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12% | 16.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
More children than Louisiana overall
Children under 18 are 37% of residents (24% statewide); people 65 and older are 10% of residents (17% statewide). The median age in Presquille is 32.7 years. 20% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 27% across Louisiana.
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±7.8 points. Across Louisiana, 51.1% of residents are women.
| Presquille | LA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 27% | 12.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.4% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.2% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.3% | 13.3% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.7% | 11.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.2% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 5.9% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 4.3% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 10.7% | 12.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 48.8% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 17% | 20.4% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 4% | 7.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 15.5% | 17% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 4.1% | 10.1% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,100, single groups can be off by several points
The median household income in Presquille is higher than in the typical Louisiana or U.S. town
Presquille’s median household income is $112,000. Since 2013, Presquille has added 24 jobs, to 134 in 2023. 1.3% of working residents work locally in Presquille.
| Presquille | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $112,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Presquille
Presquille has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 91°, January nights drop to 45° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Presquille sell for about $267K
No town among the 162 in Louisiana we compare has a higher share of households owning their home than Presquille.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Presquille
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Presquille
About 2 of every 100 Presquille residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Louisiana.
99% of working residents leave Presquille for work
Where Presquille’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Presquille’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Presquille.
| Town | LA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presquille | — | — | A− | — | A− | D |
| Bourg | — | — | B+ | — | A− | C |
Presquille and Bourg have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Presquille and Bourg report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Presquille with a neighbor →
Questions about Presquille
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Presquille, LA expensive?
Not for the area. That is 4.2 years of the area's median household income ($64,038 across the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, 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 A−.