ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 71238

Louisiana · Ouachita Parish LA. Source year 2025.

Banking-desert dominant

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 82.3212. Higher values indicate more measured physical banking-access pressure. This measure does not identify bank branches, drive-through hours, individual banking behavior, or overall neighborhood quality.

Banking-access measures

Pressure index82.3212
National pressure rank#489 of 20,307
National percentile96.3
State pressure rank#4 of 365
State percentile96.16
Weighted banking-desert geography65.09%
Weighted potential-desert geography34.46%
Population banking-desert exposure56.89%
Population potential-desert exposure42.08%
Allocated population2,783.19
Allocated population in banking deserts1,583.48

Geographic shares and population shares use different denominators. Published ranks and percentiles are preserved, including ties. Population estimates are displayed to two decimals; exact source values are in the downloads.

People & financial access

Estimated population-group exposure to banking-desert geography. These are allocated estimates, not counts of unbanked people. Groups overlap and must not be added together.

Population groupRepresented estimateExposed estimateExposure shareEvidence tier
American Indian / Alaska Native non-Hispanic1.471.0974.38%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic47.7946.4597.19%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic334.1387.3526.14%LIMITED
Residents with disabilities489.86216.8244.26%LIMITED
Hispanic34.8418.6953.65%LIMITED
Older residents357.46162.1245.35%LIMITED
Other race non-Hispanic0.230.23100.00%LIMITED
People of color423.38154.3636.46%LIMITED
Two or more races non-Hispanic4.920.5410.98%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic2,359.811,429.1260.56%STANDARD

Evidence tiers are passed through from the source. Missing ranks or rates remain unavailable. A zero exposure share does not guarantee that a branch is open or nearby.

Source year: 2025 in the governed ZIP profile view. Exported October 13, 2026; the export date is not an observation date. Population figures are allocated estimates; groups can overlap. Sources and interpretation →