5%-10% of collected rent ($150/mo min), a one-time placement fee, and six guarantees in writing. Median rent in the area: ~$1,500/month. Bilingual team — English & 中文.
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Strong student and professional demand keeps quality rentals occupied year-round.
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Researched October 2026. Sources: Trulia (Aug 2026); RentCafe / Yardi Matrix (Sept 2026); Zumper (Oct 2026); HUD FY2026 Fair Market Rents; East Baton Rouge Parish assessment data; U.S. Census ACS.
Sources disagree here more than anywhere else on this list, because each samples a different slice of the same market: RentCafe averages large professionally managed complexes, Zumper pulls active listings including houses and duplexes, and HUD's fair market rent is a 40th-percentile voucher benchmark for the five-parish metro, not the city.
| Bedroom | Rent / mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | $995 - $1,046 | Trulia $995 (Aug 2026) - RentCafe $1,046 (Sept 2026) |
| 2 bed | $1,095 - $1,232 | Trulia $1,095 - RentCafe $1,232 |
| 3 bed, all types | $1,700 | Trulia; RentCafe $1,607 and Zumper $1,650 converge near $1,600-1,650 |
| 3 bed, single-family house | $1,800 | Trulia - houses are the most expensive rental type at a citywide $1,800 average |
| 4 bed | $2,120 - $2,400 | Trulia $2,120 - Zumper $2,400 |
East Baton Rouge Parish School System varies significantly school by school, which is why the magnet programmes and the outlying districts matter so much here. Central and Zachary are the perennial top-rated draws, and Ascension Parish (Prairieville, Gonzales) and Livingston Parish (Denham Springs) pull families out of the city entirely with lower home prices - at the cost of a longer commute. Confirm the attendance zone per address: it drives both rent and resale.
Baton Rouge runs on three economies at once, and each pulls a different tenant. State government anchors downtown. ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge complex - the third-largest refinery in the United States and Louisiana's largest single industrial employer at roughly 4,500 people - anchors the Mississippi River corridor. LSU's roughly 34,000 students plus Our Lady of the Lake and Baton Rouge General fill in healthcare and student housing. That mix is why rent numbers conflict so much between sources.
Baton Rouge runs on three engines: state government, LSU and the petrochemical corridor along the Mississippi. Government and healthcare tenants are the most stable in the parish; plant employees are excellent when they are direct W-2 hires and need real underwriting when they are turnaround contractors on project-based income. Rents are flat in 2026, so the differentiator is tenant quality and service responsiveness, not headline price.
| Segment | Median asking rent | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| 3BR / 2BA single-family | $1,750 | Shenandoah, Kenilworth, Old Jefferson |
| 4BR single-family | $2,050 | Prairieville, Central, Zachary |
| 2BR apartment / condo | $1,250 | South Campus, Garden District |
| Student 3–4BR near LSU | $625 / bed | Tigerland, South Campus — per-bedroom leases |
Asking-rent bands reflect current listings and recently executed leases across our Baton Rouge portfolio and public market sources; segment medians are compiled from the two, so treat them as an indicative range rather than an appraisal. Headline market figures: Realtor.com Research (Louisiana, July 2026) and Doorstead Houston-metro market data (July 2026); HUD FY2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents for the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metro. The cards further up this page blend bedrooms and property types across our own portfolio, so they will not match a segment median exactly — your free rental analysis uses live comparables for your specific address and updates this report monthly. Get a free Baton Rouge rental analysis →
State law sets the floor. County, parish, city and private covenants stack on top of it — and in Baton Rouge the layer that catches owners out is usually the last one.
How we handle this in practice. Baton Rouge filings go to Baton Rouge City Court for properties inside the city limits and to the 19th Judicial District Court outside them (Baker, Zachary, Central, unincorporated). Filing in the wrong court is the most common way a clean eviction loses two weeks — and service paperwork, not the merits, is the usual reason a rule for possession is dismissed.
Regulations change and municipal desks read them differently street by street — always confirm the current requirement for the specific address with the city, parish or county before you rely on it. We run compliance for every property we manage, including registration renewals, annual alarm checks and the paperwork trail that decides a deposit dispute.
Three engagements from our Baton Rouge portfolio. Addresses are withheld at the owners' request; figures are as executed.
Three individual leases, each with a parental guarantor and joint-and-several liability on the common areas. It was fully pre-leased for the following academic year in February — the whole point of running student housing on a calendar rather than a wait-and-see basis.
The owner had a hail claim mid-tenancy and worried about turnover. We documented the repair, re-photographed the unit, and had it re-let 16 days after the prior tenant vacated — then renewed the replacement tenant at $1,710.
The owners were relocating out of state and could not sell at their number without taking a loss. We underwrote the rent, showed them the carry cost of a vacant listing, and placed a corporate relocation tenant on an 18-month lease instead.
Rent and vacancy for this city, guides by ZIP code, and every monthly report we have published for Baton Rouge.
Published monthly since May 2026. Figures are statistical estimates from public sources (Zillow, Realtor.com, RentCast, HUD, U.S. Census ACS) and are general information, not legal, tax or investment advice.
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