Home age in ZIP 71301, Alexandria, LA: median built 1958

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 71301 in Alexandria, LA: median home built 1958; 92.7% of homes (8,503) are older than 25 years and 3.8% (346) were built since 2010, out of 9,173 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 71301.

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Share of homes in ZIP 71301 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 9 percent; 1940s 24.4 percent; 1950s 21.7 percent; 1960s 13.5 percent; 1970s 10.9 percent; 1980s 8.8 percent; 1990s 4.5 percent; 2000s 3.5 percent; 2010s 3.4 percent; 2020+ 0.4 percentpre-1940: 823 homes, 9.0%9%pre-1940Rapides Parish: 4.5%1940s: 2,234 homes, 24.4%24.4%1940sRapides Parish: 8.4%1950s: 1,995 homes, 21.7%21.7%1950sRapides Parish: 10.2%1960s: 1,234 homes, 13.5%13.5%1960sRapides Parish: 11.7%1970s: 1,003 homes, 10.9%10.9%1970sRapides Parish: 15.8%1980s: 803 homes, 8.8%8.8%1980sRapides Parish: 13.3%1990s: 411 homes, 4.5%4.5%1990sRapides Parish: 11.9%2000s: 324 homes, 3.5%3.5%2000sRapides Parish: 12.8%2010s: 308 homes, 3.4%3.4%2010sRapides Parish: 10.3%2020+: 38 homes, 0.4%0.4%2020+Rapides Parish: 1.1%Built 1999 or earlier: 92.7% of homes (8,503)ZIP 71301, built before 2000built 2000 or laterRapides Parish

Share of the 9,173 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Rapides 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 71301 next to Alexandria and Rapides Parish

IndicatorZIP 71301AlexandriaRapides ParishRank among 1 ZIPs of Alexandria on this site
Housing units9,17320,80558,321
Median year built195819701980
Built before 198079.5%64.7%50.6%
Built before 200092.7%no data75.8%
Built since 20103.8%no data11.4%
Owner-occupied homes49.7%52.3%65.3%
Single-family units81.5%71.5%no data
Median home value$156,700 (+/- $14,520)$182,800$179,100
Median household income$44,330 (+/- $5,639)$47,357no 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 71301

BuiltShare of Rapides ParishShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 71301
2020+1.1%0.4%38
2010s10.3%3.4%308
2000s12.8%3.5%324
1990s11.9%4.5%411
1980s13.3%8.8%803
1970s15.8%10.9%1,003
1960s11.7%13.5%1,234
1950s10.2%21.7%1,995
1940s8.4%24.4%2,234
pre-19404.5%9.0%823

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 71301

ZIP 71301 has 9,173 housing units: 8,503 (92.7%) were built before 2000, 346 (3.8%) in 2010 or later, and 2,234 (24.4%) in the 1940s, its largest era. The median year built is 1958 (Alexandria: 1970), so 12 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 49.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 81.5% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $156,700, give or take $14,520; median household income is $44,330, give or take $5,639; the ZIP holds 44.1% of the housing units the Census counts in Alexandria, 9,173 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, 8,092 units (88.2%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 411 (4.5%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 324 (3.5%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 346 (3.8%, 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 71301

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.

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–of homes in ZIP 71301 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 71301 among Alexandria’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 71301 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 71301: 9,173 homes, 92.7% built before 2000, median year 195871301
  • under 20% built before 2000
  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 71301. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Storm backdrop: Rapides Parish

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Rapides Parish Relatively Moderate overall (84.3 of 100), Relatively Low for hail (57.6), Relatively Moderate for strong wind (77.5) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (68.7). NOAA logged 29 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 71301: Lafayette, LA (77 miles), Lake Charles, LA (86 miles), Monroe, LA (88 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 71301?

Of the 9,173 housing units, 7,289 (79.5%) were built before 1980, 8,503 (92.7%) before 2000 and 346 (3.8%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 71301?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 7,289 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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