PresquilleLA
Some 2,062 people live in this town, in Louisiana.
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
Of the losses FEMA expects in Presquille, 49% come from hurricanes and 20% from coastal flooding. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 99% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Presquille are less healthy than nine in ten U.S. towns
The share of adults in Presquille who feel lonely: 34%. The town beats the Louisiana average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. In Presquille, 17% of adults report frequent physical distress, and 18% worry about having enough food.
| 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
The age of the median resident for Presquille comes to 32.7 years. Children under 18 are 37% of residents (24% statewide); people 65 and older are 10% of residents (17% statewide). A bachelor’s degree or higher: 20% of adults 25 and older, 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: 1.3% of working residents work locally. Employers in Presquille added 24 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 134. In Presquille, the average trip to work is 22 minutes. Half the trips to work are shorter than 7 miles.
| 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
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 $215K
100% of households own their home in 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 a good place to live?
Some 2,062 people live in this town, in Louisiana.
Is Presquille, LA expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $272,000, 27% 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−.