Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,622, settled in 1907. Public schools that outperform most of Louisiana.
Sorrento’s best subject grades are an A for schools and an A− for incomes; its weakest is a D for hazard risk. On incomes, just 12 of Louisiana’s 250 towns do better. Only 14 of Louisiana’s 255 towns score lower on the outdoors. Sorrento's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 86% of U.S. towns. Sorrento has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Sorrento beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Sorrento’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 Sorrento is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,151 in 1960, 1,514 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 1920 and 5 maps from 1892 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sorrento, 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 Sorrento.
Its public schools are run by the Ascension Parish school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorrento Primary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 638 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within LA on state tests and graduation
The typical Sorrento home is worth about $313,000, up 3.4% in a year, 46% above the Louisiana typical home. 85% of Sorrento households own their home, where Louisiana’s towns sit at 68% and U.S. towns at 73%. Sorrento’s median rent is $1,344 a month.
| Sorrento | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 68% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,344 a month | $990 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 88% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 145 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Sorrento.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sorrento’s median household income is $118,000, above both the Louisiana town median ($56,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). 8.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Sorrento. Since 2013, Sorrento has lost 79 jobs, to 366 in 2023.
| Sorrento | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $118,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.5% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Sorrento beats the Louisiana average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 19% of Sorrento adults binge drink. Only 9 of the 162 Louisiana towns we compare have a lower share of adults who have obesity than Sorrento.
| Sorrento | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 20% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 26% | 14% |
| What stands out | Sorrento | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 9.7% | 12.4% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 12.1% | 15.2% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 75.9% | 78.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Sorrento has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Sorrento is 92°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Louisiana average. Sorrento has grown 6% since 2020, to 1,622 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 18% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 27% across Louisiana.
| Sorrento | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 18% | 20% | 29% |
| Median age | 37.6 years | 37.8 years | 40.5 years |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.3 points. Across Louisiana, 51.1% of residents are women.
| Sorrento | LA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.3% | 12.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.4% | 10.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.8% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.2% | 13.3% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15.9% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.5% | 11.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.6% | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.5% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.6% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 7.5% | 12.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 44% | 32.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 26.7% | 20.4% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 4.1% | 7.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 13% | 17% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 4.7% | 10.1% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,600, single groups can be off by several points
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sorrento. Close and well known come first.
25 mi Stadium & arenaTiger Stadium
27 mi MuseumUSS Kidd
16 mi MuseumWhitney Plantation Historic District
25 mi Stadium & arenaPete Maravich Assembly Center15 mi Theme parkBlue Bayou and Dixie Landin'
39 mi Stadium & arenaPontchartrain CenterTiger Stadium: Daniel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Kidd: Cobatfor, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Whitney Plantation Historic District: Bill Leiser, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pete Maravich Assembly Center: Spatms, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pontchartrain Center: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY 3.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Sorrento
About 4 of every 100 Sorrento residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Louisiana.
Town in Louisiana, United States
Sorrento is a town in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,514 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Public schools that outperform most of Louisiana.
That is 4.5 years of the area's median household income ($69,599 across the Baton Rouge, 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.
2 notable people were born here, including John Williams and Blayne Enlow.
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