Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge population, 2020 to 2024

Baton Rouge lost 5,368 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +134. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Baton Rouge is 18.9 times that size.

Baton Rouge covers 86.94 square miles of land and 2.20 of water, for 2,541 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Baton Rouge is denser than the typical town.

What county Baton Rouge is in

All of Baton Rouge's residents live in East Baton Rouge Parish, which had 453,022 residents in 2024. Baton Rouge holds 48.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Baton Rouge

17 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Baton Rouge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70801, 70802, 70803, 70805, 70806, 70807, 70808, 70809, 70812, 70813, 70814, 70815, 70816, 70819, 70820, 70825, 70836. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Baton Rouge is

The Census internal point of Baton Rouge is at 30.440400, -91.133200. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 3.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Orleans, LA (362,701 people), 76.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lafayette, LA, 55.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Baton Rouge

At 30.44° N, Baton Rouge gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Baton Rouge daylight page.

Places near Baton Rouge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Port Allen, 4.4 miles away, with 4,991 people.