Baton Rouge is a relatively large city located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 221,453 people and 94 associated neighborhoods, Baton Rouge is the second largest community in Louisiana.Baton Rouge is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Baton Rouge is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baton Rouge who work in sales jobs (10.65%), office and administrative support (9.04%), and management occupations (9.03%). Also of interest is that Baton Rouge has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Baton Rouge really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Baton Rouge is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Baton Rouge more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Baton Rouge’s character and quality of life. The education level of Baton Rouge citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.42% of adults in Baton Rouge have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Baton Rouge in 2022 was $33,910, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,640 for a family of four. However, Baton Rouge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Baton Rouge is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Baton Rouge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baton Rouge residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Baton Rouge include French, German, English, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Baton Rouge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
