Home age in ZIP 71201, Monroe, LA: median built 1970

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 71201 in Monroe, LA: median home built 1970; 84.2% of homes (8,720) are older than 25 years and 5.8% (602) were built since 2010, out of 10,352 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 71201.

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Share of homes in ZIP 71201 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 10.4 percent; 1940s 5.8 percent; 1950s 18.5 percent; 1960s 14.8 percent; 1970s 12.3 percent; 1980s 13.4 percent; 1990s 9 percent; 2000s 9.9 percent; 2010s 5.8 percent; 2020+ 0 percentpre-1940: 1,081 homes, 10.4%10.4%pre-1940Ouachita Parish: 3.1%1940s: 598 homes, 5.8%5.8%1940sOuachita Parish: 3.3%1950s: 1,917 homes, 18.5%18.5%1950sOuachita Parish: 9.3%1960s: 1,534 homes, 14.8%14.8%1960sOuachita Parish: 12.8%1970s: 1,277 homes, 12.3%12.3%1970sOuachita Parish: 17.4%1980s: 1,382 homes, 13.4%13.4%1980sOuachita Parish: 14.4%1990s: 931 homes, 9.0%9%1990sOuachita Parish: 14.4%2000s: 1,030 homes, 9.9%9.9%2000sOuachita Parish: 14.7%2010s: 602 homes, 5.8%5.8%2010sOuachita Parish: 9.9%2020+: 0 homes, 0.0%0%2020+Ouachita Parish: 0.9%Built 1999 or earlier: 84.2% of homes (8,720)ZIP 71201, built before 2000built 2000 or laterOuachita Parish

Share of the 10,352 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Ouachita Parish. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 71201 next to Monroe and Ouachita Parish

IndicatorZIP 71201MonroeOuachita ParishRank among 1 ZIPs of Monroe on this site
Housing units10,35221,31770,667
Median year built197019711983
Built before 198061.9%65.9%45.8%
Built before 200084.2%no data74.6%
Built since 20105.8%no data10.7%
Owner-occupied homes54.3%45.1%59.5%
Single-family units70.1%71.7%no data
Median home value$247,100 (+/- $17,991)$174,800$183,000
Median household income$53,538 (+/- $12,295)$36,521no data

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 71201

BuiltShare of Ouachita ParishShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 71201
2020+0.9%0.0%0
2010s9.9%5.8%602
2000s14.7%9.9%1,030
1990s14.4%9.0%931
1980s14.4%13.4%1,382
1970s17.4%12.3%1,277
1960s12.8%14.8%1,534
1950s9.3%18.5%1,917
1940s3.3%5.8%598
pre-19403.1%10.4%1,081

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 71201

ZIP 71201 has 10,352 housing units: 8,720 (84.2%) were built before 2000, 602 (5.8%) in 2010 or later, and 1,917 (18.5%) in the 1950s, its largest era. The median year built is 1970 (Monroe: 1971), so 1 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 54.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 70.1% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $247,100, give or take $17,991; median household income is $53,538, give or take $12,295; the ZIP holds 48.6% of the housing units the Census counts in Monroe, 10,352 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 7,789 units (75.2%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 931 (9%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 1,030 (9.9%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 602 (5.8%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 71201

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

–years old (roof)
–of homes in ZIP 71201 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 71201 among Monroe’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 71201 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 71201: 10,352 homes, 84.2% built before 2000, median year 197071201
  • under 20% built before 2000
  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 71201. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Storm backdrop: Ouachita Parish

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Ouachita Parish Relatively Moderate overall (87.5 of 100), Relatively Moderate for hail (86.5), Relatively High for strong wind (90.7) and Relatively High for tornado (96.0). NOAA logged 56 hail reports in the county, on 18 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 71201: Alexandria, LA (87 miles), Bossier City, LA (95 miles), Shreveport, LA (96 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 71201?

Of the 10,352 housing units, 6,407 (61.9%) were built before 1980, 8,720 (84.2%) before 2000 and 602 (5.8%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 71201?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 6,407 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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