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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

January 26, 2023

"Baton Rouge" redirects here. For other uses, see Baton Rouge (disambiguation).

Baton Rouge (/ˌbætən ˈruːʒ/ BAT-ən ROOZH; from French Bâton-Rouge 'red stick') is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish,[3] Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties in other U.S. states.[4] Since 2020, it has been the second-largest city in Louisiana after New Orleans; Baton Rouge is the 18th-most-populous state capital. According to the 2020 United States census,[5] the city-proper had a population of 227,470; its consolidated population was 456,781 in 2020.[6] The city is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area—Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area—with a population of 870,569 as of 2020,[7] up from 802,484 in 2010.[8]

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bâton-Rouge (French)
State capital city and Consolidated city-parish
City of Baton Rouge
From top, left to right: Downtown, Old Louisiana State Capitol, Louisiana State Capitol, St. Joseph Cathedral, Huey P. Long Bridge, Tiger Stadium (LSU), USS Kidd
Flag
Seal
Coat of arms
Wordmark
Nicknames: 
Red Stick, The Capital City, B.R.
Interactive map of Baton Rouge
Coordinates: 30°26′51″N 91°10′43″W / 30.44750°N 91.17861°W / 30.44750; -91.17861Coordinates: 30°26′51″N 91°10′43″W / 30.44750°N 91.17861°W / 30.44750; -91.17861
Country United States
State Louisiana
ParishEast Baton Rouge
Founded1699
Settled1721
IncorporatedJanuary 16, 1817
Government
 • Mayor-PresidentSharon Weston Broome[1] (D)
Area
[2]
 • State capital city and Consolidated city-parish88.52 sq mi (229.27 km2)
 • Land86.32 sq mi (223.56 km2)
 • Water2.20 sq mi (5.71 km2)
 • Total[note 1]79.11 sq mi (204.89 km2)
Elevation
56 ft (17 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • State capital city and Consolidated city-parish227,470
 • RankUS: 99th
 • Density2,635.32/sq mi (1,017.50/km2)
 • Urban
631,326 (US: 67th)
 • Urban density1,592.9/sq mi (615.0/km2)
 • Metro
870,569 (US: 66th)
DemonymBaton Rougean
Time zoneUTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes
70801–70817, 70819–70823, 70825–70827, 70831, 70833, 70835–70837, 70874, 70879, 70883, 70884, 70892–70896, 70898
Area code225
FIPS code22-05000
GNIS feature ID1629914
Interstate highways
U.S. routes
Websitewww.brla.gov

The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas.[9]

It is a culturally rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants. It was ruled by seven different governments: French, British, and Spanish in the colonial era; the Republic of West Florida; as a United States territory and state; Confederate, and United States again since the end of the American Civil War. Through the various occupying national governments of Baton Rouge, the city and its metropolitan area have developed as a multicultural region practicing many religious traditions from Catholicism to Protestantism, and Louisiana and Haitian Vodou; the area has also become home to a sizeable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,[10] and elected the first open LGBT politician for the Louisiana Public Service Commission.[11]

Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture,[12] and growing technology center of the American South.[13] It is the location of Louisiana State University—the LSU system's flagship university and the state's largest institution of higher education.[14] It is also the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System—the nation's only historically black college system.[15] The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth-largest in the U.S. by tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships.[16][17] Major corporations participating in the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area's economy include Amazon, Lamar Advertising Company, BBQGuys, Marucci Sports, Piccadilly Restaurants, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, ExxonMobil, Brown & Root, Shell, and Dow Chemical Company.

History

Main articles: History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Timeline of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Pre–history

Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000–6500 BC, based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers.[18][19] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the fourth millennium BC.[20] The speakers of the Proto-Muskogean language divided into its descendant languages by about 1000 BC; and a cultural boundary between either side of Mobile Bay and the Black Warrior River began to appear between about 1200 BC and 500 BC—a period called the Middle "Gulf Formational Stage". The Eastern Muskogean language began to diversify internally in the first half of the first millennium AD.[21]

The early Muskogean societies were the bearers of the Mississippian culture, which formed around 800 AD and extended in a vast network across the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, with numerous chiefdoms in the Southeast, as well. By the time the Spanish made their first forays inland from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the early 16th century, by some evidence many political centers of the Mississippians were already in decline, or abandoned. At the time, this region appeared to have been occupied by a collection of moderately sized native chiefdoms, interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups.[22] Other evidence indicates these Mississippian settlements were thriving at the time of the first Spanish contact. Later Spanish expeditions encountered the remains of groups who had lost many people and been disrupted in the aftermath of infectious diseases, chronic among Europeans, unknowingly introduced by the first expedition.

Colonial period

Further information: Louisiana (New France), West Florida, and Red Sticks
 
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, named Baton Rouge and lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas in the early French colonial era.

French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville led an exploration party up the Mississippi River in 1698. The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayagoula tribal hunting grounds. The French name le bâton rouge ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma ("red pole");[23] André-Joseph Pénicaut—a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville—published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Pénicaut:

From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called écorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [bâton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge—named the Oumas.

The red pole was presumably at Scott's Bluff, on what is now the campus of Southern University.[24] It was reportedly a 30-foot-high (9.1 m) painted pole adorned with fish bones.[25]

European settlement of Baton Rouge began in 1721 when French colonists established a military and trading post. Since then, Baton Rouge has been governed by France, Britain, Spain, Louisiana, the Republic of West Florida, the United States, the Confederate States, and the United States again. In 1755, when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canada's Maritime provinces were expelled by British forces, many took up residence in rural Louisiana. Popularly known as Cajuns, the descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture. During the first half of the 19th century, Baton Rouge grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade and transportation.

Incorporation and growth

 
Baton Rouge in 1863

Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817. In 1822, the Pentagon Barracks complex of buildings was completed. The site has been used by the Spanish, French, British, Confederate States Army, and United States Army and was part of the short-lived Republic of West Florida.[26] In 1951, ownership of the barracks was transferred to the state of Louisiana. In 1976, the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[27]

Acquisition of Louisiana by the United States in 1803 was a catalyst for increased Anglo-American settlement, especially in the northern part of the state. In 1846, the state legislature designated Baton Rouge as Louisiana's new capital to replace "sinful" New Orleans. The architect James Dakin was hired to design the old Louisiana State Capitol, with construction beginning in late 1847.[24]

Rather than mimic the United States Capitol, as many other states had done, he designed a capitol in Neo-Gothic style, complete with turrets and crenellations, and stained glass; it overlooks the Mississippi. It has been described as the "most distinguished example of Gothic Revival" architecture in the state and has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.[28]

By the outbreak of the American Civil War, the population of Baton Rouge was nearly 5,500. The war nearly halted economic progress, except for businesses associated with supplying the Union Army occupation of the city, which began in the spring of 1862 and lasted for the duration of the war. The Confederates at first consolidated their forces elsewhere, during which time the state government moved to Opelousas and later Shreveport.[24] In the summer of 1862, about 2,600 Confederate troops under generals John C. Breckinridge (the former Vice President of the United States) and Daniel Ruggles attempted to recapture Baton Rouge.

After the war, New Orleans temporarily served as the seat of the Reconstruction era state government. When the Bourbon Democrats regained power in 1882, after considerable intimidation and voter suppression of black Republicans, they returned the state government to Baton Rouge, where it has since remained. In his 1893 guidebook, Karl Baedeker described Baton Rouge as "the Capital of Louisiana, a quaint old place with 10,378 inhabitants, on a bluff above the Mississippi".[29]

In the 1950s and 1960s, the petrochemical industry boomed in Baton Rouge, stimulating the city's expansion beyond its original center. The changing market in the oil business has produced fluctuations in the industry, affecting employment in the city and area.

A building boom began in the city in the 1990s and continued into the 2000s, during which Baton Rouge was one of the fastest-growing cities in the Southern United States in terms of technology.[30] Metropolitan Baton Rouge was ranked as one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the U.S. (with a population under 1 million), with 602,894 in 2000 and 802,484 people as of the 2010 U.S. census.[31] After the extensive damage in New Orleans and along the coast from Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, the city took in as many as 200,000 displaced residents.

In 2010, Baton Rouge started a market push to become a test city for Google's new super high speed fiber optic line known as GeauxFiBR.[32]

In July 2016, the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area was heavily affected by the shooting of Alton Sterling;[33] their death led to multiple protests and the shooting of police officers.[34][35][36][37] President Barack Obama also made remarks on the shooting of Alton Sterling.[38] By February 2021, Sterling's family was given a $4.5 million settlement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.[39][40] In August 2016, the city and metropolitan area were severely flooded.[41][42]

During the runoff for District 3 of the Louisiana Public Service Commission in December 2022, many Baton Rougeans helped elect Davante Lewis—the first openly LGBT politician to the state government.[43][11]

Geography

 
Baton Rouge as viewed from the International Space Station in May 2011, looking west

The city of Baton Rouge lies on the banks of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana's Florida Parishes region.[44] The city is about 79 miles (127 km) from New Orleans,[45] 126 miles (203 km) from Alexandria,[46] 56 miles (90 km) from Lafayette and 250 miles (400 km) from Shreveport.[47] It is also 173 miles (278 km) from Jackson, Mississippi and 272 miles (438 km) from Houston, Texas.[48][49] Baton Rouge lies on a low elevation of 56 to a little over 62 feet above sea level.[50]

Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana and the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 79.15 square miles (205.0 km2), of which 76.95 square miles (199.3 km2) are land and 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2) (2.81%) are covered by water.[51] The city is on the first set of bluffs north of the Mississippi River Delta's coastal plains. Because of its prominent location along the river and on the bluffs, which prevents flooding, the French built a fort in the city in 1719.[52] Baton Rouge is the third-southernmost capital city in the continental United States, after Austin, Texas, and Tallahassee, Florida. It is the cultural and economic center of the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area.

Climate

Climate data for Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Metropolitan Airport), 1991–2020 normals,[note 2] extremes 1892–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 85
(29) 		88
(31) 		93
(34) 		96
(36) 		101
(38) 		103
(39) 		103
(39) 		110
(43) 		104
(40) 		98
(37) 		89
(32) 		88
(31) 		110
(43)
Mean maximum °F (°C) 77
(25) 		80
(27) 		84
(29) 		88
(31) 		92
(33) 		96
(36) 		97
(36) 		97
(36) 		95
(35) 		91
(33) 		84
(29) 		80
(27) 		98
(37)
Average high °F (°C) 62.3
(16.8) 		66.6
(19.2) 		73.0
(22.8) 		79.1
(26.2) 		85.8
(29.9) 		90.5
(32.5) 		91.9
(33.3) 		92.2
(33.4) 		88.7
(31.5) 		80.9
(27.2) 		71.0
(21.7) 		64.3
(17.9) 		78.9
(26.1)
Daily mean °F (°C) 52.0
(11.1) 		55.9
(13.3) 		62.0
(16.7) 		68.0
(20.0) 		75.5
(24.2) 		81.0
(27.2) 		82.9
(28.3) 		82.8
(28.2) 		78.8
(26.0) 		69.5
(20.8) 		59.4
(15.2) 		53.8
(12.1) 		68.5
(20.3)
Average low °F (°C) 41.6
(5.3) 		45.3
(7.4) 		51.0
(10.6) 		56.9
(13.8) 		65.1
(18.4) 		71.5
(21.9) 		73.8
(23.2) 		73.3
(22.9) 		68.9
(20.5) 		58.1
(14.5) 		47.8
(8.8) 		43.3
(6.3) 		58.0
(14.4)
Mean minimum °F (°C) 24
(−4) 		29
(−2) 		33
(1) 		40
(4) 		51
(11) 		64
(18) 		69
(21) 		67
(19) 		56
(13) 		41
(5) 		31
(−1) 		27
(−3) 		23
(−5)
Record low °F (°C) 9
(−13) 		2
(−17) 		20
(−7) 		31
(−1) 		40
(4) 		53
(12) 		58
(14) 		58
(14) 		43
(6) 		30
(−1) 		21
(−6) 		8
(−13) 		2
(−17)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 6.36
(162) 		4.42
(112) 		4.46
(113) 		5.08
(129) 		5.23
(133) 		6.45
(164) 		5.09
(129) 		6.37
(162) 		4.42
(112) 		4.84
(123) 		3.90
(99) 		5.32
(135) 		61.94
(1,573)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.2
(0.51) 		0.2
(0.51)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) 9.9 8.9 8.9 8.0 8.2 11.6 13.2 11.8 8.6 7.3 8.0 9.7 114.1
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Average relative humidity (%) 74.1 70.9 70.0 70.6 72.3 74.4 77.2 77.7 76.9 72.8 74.6 74.7 73.8
Source: NOAA (relative humidity 1961–1990)[53][54][55]
 
Baton Rouge, 2016 Louisiana flood

Baton Rouge has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with mild winters, hot and humid summers, moderate to heavy rainfall, and the possibility of damaging winds and tornadoes yearlong. The area's average precipitation is 61.94 inches (141.1 cm) of rain and 0.1 inches (0.25 cm) of snow annually. With ample precipitation, Baton Rouge is fifth on the list of wettest cities in the United States. Snow in the Baton Rouge area is usually rare, although it snowed in three consecutive years at the first decade of the 21st century: December 11, 2008, December 4, 2009, and February 12, 2010; in 2017, Baton Rouge received snow again.[56] The yearly average temperature for Baton Rouge is 68.4 °F (20.2 °C) while the average temperature for January is 51.7 °F (10.9 °C) and July is 83.0 °F (28.3 °C).[53] The area is usually free from extremes in temperature, with some cold winter fronts, but those are usually brief.[57]

Baton Rouge's proximity to the Gulf of Mexico exposes the city and metropolitan area to hurricanes. On September 1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav struck the city and became the worst hurricane ever to hit the Baton Rouge area.[58] Winds topped 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), knocking down trees and powerlines and making roads impassable.[59] The roofs of many buildings suffered tree damage, especially in the Highland Road, Garden District, and Goodwood areas. The city was shut down for five days and a curfew was put in effect. Rooftop shingles were ripped off, signs blew down, and minor structural damage occurred.

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1810469—
18402,269—
18503,90572.1%
18605,42839.0%
18706,49819.7%
18807,19710.8%
189010,47845.6%
190011,2697.5%
191014,89732.2%
192021,78246.2%
193030,72941.1%
194034,71913.0%
1950125,629261.8%
1960152,41921.3%
1970165,9218.9%
1980220,39432.8%
1990219,531−0.4%
2000227,8183.8%
2010229,4930.7%
2020227,470−0.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[60]
2018 Estimate[61]

Prior to colonization, American Indians were once the primary residents of present-day Baton Rouge. With the coming of European colonization, and the migration of American settlers after the Louisiana Purchase, European and African-descended peoples became the predominant groups in the area by birth rates and immigration to a 1860 population of 5,428. Since reaching its first historic high of 220,394 residents at the 1980 U.S. census, the city's population has expanded and contracted twice: from 219,531 in 1990, to 227,818 in 2000—the second historic high—and 229,493, the city-proper's third historic high in 2010,[62] to 227,470 at the 2020 census.[5]

Including the consolidated city–parish of Baton Rouge in 2019 (East Baton Rouge Parish), the American Community Survey estimated 443,763 people lived in the area.[6] In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau determined 456,781 people lived in the consolidated city–parish.[63] The metropolitan population of Baton Rouge increased to 3.6% as a result of suburbanization in 2019, to an estimated 854,884.[64] In 2020, the metropolitan statistical area's population increased to 870,569 residents,[7] reflecting southern Louisiana's population growth in contrast with northern Louisiana's stagnation and decline.[65]

In 2019, the city of Baton Rouge had a population density of 2,982.5 people per square mile.[62]

Racial and ethnic composition

Racial and ethnic composition 2020[66] 2010[67]
African Americans 53.5% 54.5%
White 34.2% 37.8%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 5.94% 3.5%
Asian Americans 3.21% 3.5%
Native Americans 0.17% 0.5%
Pacific Islander 0.03% —
Two or more races 2.89% 1.3%

With the population growth of European and African-descended peoples in present-day Baton Rouge, the American Indian population declined to one of the smallest minority groups in the area. With the increase among people of color during the 20th century, Baton Rouge has also declined as a predominantly non-Hispanic white city, hastened by suburbanization and white flight. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites represented 70.5% of the population;[68] by 2010, they represented 37.8% of the total population.

According to the 2020 United States census, Black or African Americans made up 53.55% of the city-proper's population; according to census estimates in 2021, Black or African Americans made up the largest share of youths.[69] The remaining racial and ethnic makeup for the city in 2020 was 34.22% non-Hispanic white, 0.17% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.21% Asian, 0.03% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 2.89% two or more races, and 5.95% Hispanic and Latino American of any race;[66] the growing Hispanic and Latino population reflected increasing trends of nationwide diversification.[70] Among the population of the city and metropolitan area, a substantial number also identify as Cajun or Louisiana Creole.

Sexual orientation and identity

During the middle of the 20th century, The Advocate and other region-wide newspapers discriminated against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.[71] In 1969, the Krewe of Apollo—an LGBT social club originating from nearby New Orleans—developed a sister branch for Baton Rouge; its annual drag balls were targets of further discrimination.[71] Since then, other organizations have been established such as Capital City Alliance,[72] and the area has grown a sizeable LGBT community, holding festivals such as Baton Rouge Pride.[10]

Religion and spirituality

 
Steeple of St. Joseph Cathedral, cathedral see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge

Native American religions and Afrodiasporic religions were commonplace alongside Christianity in Baton Rouge's early history. Due to French, Spanish, and British colonialism and missionary work, however, in addition to American settlement, Baton Rouge became a predominantly Christian city and metropolitan area. According to a study by the Association of Religion Data Archives in 2020, Christianity has remained the most-practiced religion for the Baton Rouge area, being influenced by Catholicism and Protestantism.

In 2020, ARDA reported there were 61 congregations and 174,410 Catholics within the metropolitan area; its Catholic population is primarily served by the Latin Church's Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge—a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of New Orleans. The Southern Baptist Convention was the second largest individual Christian denomination with 208 congregations and 91,293 members; following, the United Methodists had 28,924 members and the National Baptist Convention had 15,532 adherents in 25 churches. Non-denominational Protestants were spread out in 270 churches numbering 102,500.[73]

According to a separate study by Sperling's BestPlaces, other notable Christian bodies in the area have included Anglicans or Episcopalians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Latter-Day Saints, and Lutherans.[74] Christians including Jehovah's Witnesses, the Metropolitan Community Church, Christian Unitarians, and the Eastern Orthodox among others collectively made up 14% of the Sperling's study other Christian demographic. Notable Anglican or Episcopalian jurisdictions operating throughout the Greater Baton Rouge area have included the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana aligned with the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States;[75] and the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of Mid-America and the Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast aligned with the Anglican Church in North America.[76] Baton Rouge's Pentecostal communities are mainly affiliated with the Assemblies of God USA and the Church of God in Christ,[77] and Presbyterians are mainly members of the Presbyterian Church (USA).[78] According to ARDA in 2020, the Church of God in Christ is the area's largest Pentecostal denomination by membership.[73]

Sperling's BestPlaces reported that the second-largest religion in Baton Rouge and its metropolitan area was Islam.[74] There are currently over six mosques in the Baton Rouge area, primarily affiliated with Sunni Islam. The Nation of Islam is also another prominent branch of the religion practiced.[79] The Muslim population has grown out of Middle Eastern immigration and African American Muslim missionary work.[80] The first Islamic private school in Baton Rouge was established in 2019.[81] As of 2019, Orthodox Jews made up 0.2% of Baton Rouge's religious population, and 0.6% identified with eastern faiths including Buddhism and Hinduism according to Sperling's.[74] New religious movements including contemporary paganism have small communities in the area,[82] and a minority practice Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and Hoodoo. According to Sperling's 2019 study, 31.9% of the population identified as either spiritual but not religious, agnostic, or atheist.

Economy

 
The former CB&I local office on Essen Lane, a commercial office corridor

Baton Rouge enjoys a strong economy that has helped the city be ranked as one of the "Top 10 Places for Young Adults" in 2010 by portfolio.com and one of the top 20 cities in North America for economic strength by the Brookings Institution.[83][84] In 2009, the city was ranked by CNN as the 9th-best place in the country to start a new business.[85] Lamar Advertising Company has its headquarters in Baton Rouge.[86] Other notable companies headquartered in the city include BBQGuys, Marucci Sports, Piccadilly Restaurants, and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers.[87] Notable corporations which have established offices or distribution centers in the Baton Rouge area have included Amazon in 2021, and Microsoft.[88][89][90] Chicago Bridge & Iron Company had an office in Baton Rouge before being sold in 2017.[91]

Baton Rouge is the farthest inland port on the Mississippi River that can accommodate ocean-going tankers and cargo carriers. The ships transfer their cargo (grain, oil, cars, containers) at Baton Rouge onto rails and pipelines (to travel east–west) or barges (to travel north). Deep-draft vessels cannot pass the Old Huey Long Bridge because the clearance is insufficient. In addition, the river depth decreases significantly just to the north, near Port Hudson.[92]

 
The ExxonMobil oil refinery seen from the capitol tower

Baton Rouge's largest industry is petrochemical production and manufacturing. ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Refinery complex is the fifth-largest oil refinery in the country;[93] it is the world's tenth largest. Baton Rouge also has rail, highway, pipeline, and deep-water access.[94] Dow Chemical Company has a large plant in Iberville Parish near Plaquemine, 17 miles (27 km) south of Baton Rouge.[95] Shaw Construction, Turner, and Harmony all started with performing construction work at these plants.

In addition to being the state capital and parish seat, the city is the home of Louisiana State University, which employs over 5,000 academic staff.[96] One of the largest single employers in Baton Rouge is the state government, which consolidated all branches of state government downtown at the Capitol Park complex.[97]

The city has a substantial medical research and clinical presence. Research hospitals have included Our Lady of the Lake, Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital (affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital), Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, and Earl K. Long (closed 2013).[98] Together with an emerging medical corridor at Essen Lane, Summa Avenue and Bluebonnet Boulevard, Baton Rouge is developing a medical district expected to be similar to the Texas Medical Center. LSU and Tulane University have both announced plans to construct satellite medical campuses in Baton Rouge to partner with Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center and Baton Rouge General Medical Center, respectively.[85]

Southeastern Louisiana University and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University both have nursing schools in the medical district off Essen Lane. Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, which conducts clinical and biological research, also contributes to research-related employment in the area around the Baton Rouge medical district.

The film industry in Louisiana has increased dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century, aided by generous tax incentives adopted by the state in 2002. In September 2013, the Baton Rouge Film Commission reported that the industry had brought more than $90 million into the local economy in 2013.[99] Baton Rouge's largest production facility is the Celtic Media Centre, opened in 2006 by a local group in collaboration with Raleigh Studios of Los Angeles. Raleigh dropped its involvement in 2014.[100]

Culture and arts

 
Raising Cane's Baton Rouge River Center in Downtown

Baton Rouge is a culturally distinct area of Louisiana, where Cajun and Creole Catholic culture from Greater New Orleans and Acadiana is syncretized with the African American Baptist culture of the Florida Parishes and South Mississippi. The city of Baton Rouge is a "college town" with Baton Rouge Community College, Louisiana State University, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, and Southern University located throughout the city limits; the students of Louisiana State University alone make up 20% of the city population.[101] In a sizable international population of over 11,300 as of 2008, the largest groups were people of Hispanic and Latino, or Vietnamese descent. This contributes to Baton Rouge's unique culture and diversity.[102]

Arts and theater

 
Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade, 2014

Baton Rouge has an expanding visual arts scene, which is centered downtown. Professional performing arts organizations include Theatre Baton Rouge, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre, Opera Louisiane and Playmakers—a professional Children's Theatre. This increasing collection of venues includes the Shaw Center for the Arts.[103] Opened in 2005, the facility houses the Brunner Gallery, LSU Museum of Art; the Manship Theatre; a contemporary art gallery; traveling exhibits; and several eateries. Another prominent facility is the Louisiana Art and Science Museum,[104] which contains the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, traveling art exhibits, space displays, and an ancient Egyptian section. Several smaller art galleries, including the Baton Rouge Gallery, offering a range of local art, are scattered throughout the city.

The city has several designated arts and cultural districts,[105] the most prominent of which are the Mid-City Cultural District and the Perkins Road Arts District. These districts provide tax incentives, mostly in the form of exempting state tax on purchases, to promote cultural activity in these areas.

A performing arts scene is emerging. LSU's Swine Palace is the foremost theatre company in the city, largely made up of students of LSU's MFA acting program, as well as professional actors and stage managers.[106] A group of physical theatre and circus artists from LSU traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, in summer 2012 to perform Dante in what has become the world's largest Fringe Festival. The show ran in Baton Rouge before going to Fringe, and featured movement, acrobatics, and aerial silk.[107]

Theatre Baton Rouge offers a diverse selection of live theatre performances. Opera Louisiane is Baton Rouge's only professional opera company.[108] The Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre is Baton Rouge's professional ballet company. The Nutcracker– A Tale from the Bayou sets the familiar holiday classic in 19th-century Louisiana and has become a Baton Rouge holiday tradition. A Tale from the Bayou features professional dancers, a live orchestra, and more than 300 area children.

Baton Rouge is also home to Forward Arts, a youth writing organization. Forward Arts won the international youth poetry slam, Brave New Voices in 2017, and was the first team from the Southern United States to ever win the competition. Forward Arts is the only youth spoken-word organization in the state of Louisiana. It was founded by Dr. Anna West in 2005, and first housed in the Big Buddy Program.[109][110]

Baton Rouge is also home to Of Moving Colors Productions, the premier contemporary dance company in the city.[111][112] For more than 30 years it has brought in internationally established choreographers to create stunning performances. In addition, they conduct extensive community outreach to children and young adults.

Performing venues include the Baton Rouge River Center, Baton Rouge River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts, which seats about 1,900; the Manship Theatre, which is located in the Shaw Center for the Arts and seats 350; and the Reilly Theater, which is home to Swine Palace, a nonprofit professional theater company associated with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre.

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has operated since 1947 and currently performs at the River Center Music Hall downtown.[113] Today, it presents more than 60 concerts annually, directed by Timothy Muffitt and David Torns.[113] The BRSO's educational component, the Louisiana Youth Orchestra, made its debut in 1984. It includes almost 180 musicians under the age of 20.

Miss USA pageants

 
Miss Louisiana USA Brittany Guidry, Miss USA 2014, Preliminary Evening Gown Competition

Baton Rouge was chosen to host the Miss USA 2014 Pageant. It took over downtown Baton Rouge as Nia Sanchez, Miss Nevada USA, took home the crown, with Miss Louisiana USA Brittany Guidry coming in fourth. Veteran pageant host Giuliana Rancic and MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts introduced the 51 contestants; there were 20 semifinalists. Cosmo weighed in on the contest, complimenting Guidry.[114] Celebrity judges included actress Rumer Willis, NBA star Karl Malone, singer Lance Bass, and actor Ian Ziering.[115] Baton Rouge hosted Miss USA 2015 again on July 12, 2015, which was won by actress and Miss Oklahoma USA Olivia Jordan. Baton Rouge was also the site of the 2005 Miss Teen USA Pageant.[116]

Tourism and recreation

See also: Points of Interest of Baton Rouge
 
USS Kidd, located downtown on the river, is part of the Louisiana Naval Museum.

Baton Rouge's many architectural points of interest range from antebellum to modern. The neo-gothic Old Louisiana State Capitol was built in the 1850s as the first statehouse in Baton Rouge. It was later replaced by the 450-ft-tall, art deco New Louisiana State Capitol, the tallest building in the South when it was completed. Several plantation homes in the area, such as Magnolia Mound Plantation House, Myrtles Plantation, and Nottoway Plantation, showcase antebellum-era architecture.

Louisiana State University has more than 250 buildings in Italian Renaissance style, one of the nation's largest college stadiums, and many live oaks. The downtown has several examples of modern and contemporary buildings, including the Capitol Park Museum.[117]

A number of structures, including the Baton Rouge River Center, Louisiana State Library, LSU Student Union, Louisiana Naval Museum, Bluebonnet Swamp Interpretive Center, Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Louisiana State Archive and Research Library, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, were designed by local architect John Desmond.[118] The Pentagon Barracks Museum and Visitors Center is within the barracks complex and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.[119]

Museums around town offer a variety of genres. The Capitol Park Museum and the Old Louisiana State Capitol Museum display information on state history and have many interactive exhibits. The Shaw Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Art and Science Museum showcase varied arts. LASM also includes science exhibits and a planetarium. Other museums include the LSU Museum of Natural Science and the USS Kidd. The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum chronicles the progression and growth of African-Americans.

Other attractions include the Mall of Louisiana and Perkins Rowe, amusement parks of Dixie Landin'/Blue Bayou, and dining at the Louisiana-cuisine restaurants.

The 2nd Annual Slam'd & Cam'd Car Show, slated for July 10, 2021, was scheduled to begin after the cancellation of the 2020 show due to the pandemic. The 2021 show planned to present than 300 muscle cars and include TV personality Courtney Hansen and MotorTrend Group's, Iron Resurrection stars, Joe and Amanda Martin.[120]

Sports

College sports play a major role in the culture of Baton Rouge. The LSU Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars are NCAA Division I athletic programs with the LSU Tigers football and Southern Jaguars football teams being the local college American football teams. College baseball, basketball, and gymnastics are also popular.[121][122]

Much of the city's sport's attention is focused on the professional teams in Greater New Orleans. Baton Rouge has had multiple minor-league baseball teams (the Baton Rouge Red Sticks), soccer teams (Baton Rouge Bombers), indoor football teams, a basketball team, and a hockey team (Baton Rouge Kingfish). The Baton Rouge Rugby Football Club or Baton Rouge Redfish 7, which began playing in 1977, has won numerous conference championships. Currently, the team competes in the Deep South Rugby Football Union.[123]

The city also has an Australian rules football team, the Baton Rouge Tigers, which began playing in 2004 and competes in the USAFL. In addition, Baton Rouge is home to Red Stick Roller Derby, a WFTDA Division 3 roller derby league. Baton Rouge is also home to the Baton Rouge Soccer Club in the Gulf Coast Premier League and the Baton Rouge Rougarou, a college summer league baseball team and member of the Texas Collegiate League; in 2022, it was announced USL League Two would establish a team in Baton Rouge named Louisiana Parish AC,[124] following the establishment of other teams in Lafayette and Shreveport.[125][126]

Parks and recreation

 
Nottoway Plantation located near White Castle, 26 miles (42 km) south of Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge has an extensive park collection presided over by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC). The largest park is City Park near the Louisiana State University flagship campus. Another notable park is Highland Road Community Park, spanning over 144 acres (58 ha). The Baton Rouge Zoo is also run through BREC and includes over 1,800 species.[127]

National protected areas

The city is home to 7 national protected areas, and at least 15 places on the National Register of Historic Places: Atchafalaya National Heritage Area; Baton Rouge National Cemetery; Independence Park Botanic Gardens; Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum; LSU Hilltop Arboretum; Magnolia Cemetery; and Port Hudson National Cemetery.

Among its protected areas, the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area extends the length of the Atchafalaya Basin from the area of Ferriday in the north to the river's mouth beyond Morgan City; the designation provides a framework for the promotion and interpretation of the area's cultural and historic character, and the preservation of the natural and built environment.[128] The Cohn Arboretum previously served as the site for the Cohn family's home; its land was donated in 1965 and the arboretum opened in 1980.[129] LSU's arboretum was originally developed in 1929 and donated to the university in 1981.[130]

Government

 
A map of East Baton Rouge Parish districts

The city of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge have been run by a consolidated government since 1947. It combined the Baton Rouge municipal government with the rural areas of the parish, allowing people outside the limits of the city of Baton Rouge to use city services. Though the city and parish have a consolidated government, this differs slightly from a traditional consolidated city-county[note 3] government.

The cities of Zachary, Baker, and Central operate their own city governments within East Baton Rouge Parish. Under this system, Baton Rouge has the uncommon office of "mayor-president", which consolidates the executive offices of "mayor of Baton Rouge" and "president of East Baton Rouge Parish". Though Zachary, Baker, and Central each have their own mayors, citizens living in these municipalities are still a part of the constituency who can vote and run in elections for mayor-president and metropolitan council.[131]

The mayor-president's duties include setting the agenda for the government and managing the government's day-to-day functions. They are also responsible for supervising departments, as well as appointing the department heads. The mayor does not set the city's public policy because that is the Metropolitan Council's role, but the mayor-president does have some influence on the policy through appointments and relationships with council members.

The current mayor-president of Baton Rouge is Sharon Weston Broome, a former Louisiana State legislator. A Democrat, Broome succeeded Kip Holden, also a Democrat, on January 2, 2017, after defeating Bodi White in a close runoff on December 10, 2016.[132] She served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 2004, and in the Louisiana State Senate from 2004 to 2016. She was elected by the senate to serve as the Senate President Pro Tempore from 2008 to 2016.[1][131][133]

Metropolitan council

 
A map of Baton Rouge City Council partisanship

When the city and parish combined government, the city and parish councils consolidated to form the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council. The Metropolitan Council is the legislative branch of the Baton Rouge government. Its 12 district council members are elected from single-member districts. They elect from among themselves the mayor-president pro tempore. The mayor-president pro tempore presides over the council's meetings and assumes the role of the mayor-president if the mayor-president is unable to serve. The council members serve four-year terms and can hold office for three terms.

In the late 1960s, Joe Delpit—a local African American businessman owning and operating the Chicken Shack[134]—was elected as the first black council member in Baton Rouge. As in other cities of Louisiana and the South, African Americans had been largely disenfranchised for decades into the 20th century.[135] The Chicken Shack, with multiple locations, in 2015 was reported as the oldest continually operating business in Baton Rouge.[136]

The Metropolitan Council's main responsibilities are setting the policy for the government, voting on legislation, and approving the city's budget. The council makes policies for the following: the city and parish general funds, all districts created by the council, the Greater Baton Rouge Airport District, the Public Transportation Commission, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sewerage Control Commission and the Greater Baton Rouge Parking Authority.[131]

Education

Main article: Education in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is home to many universities. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university that is the flagship campus of the Louisiana State University System. LSU is Louisiana's largest university, with over 30,000 students and 1,300 full-time faculty members.[137] Southern University and A&M College, generally known as Southern University or SU, is the flagship institution of the Southern University System, the nation's only historically black land-grant university system. SU is the largest HBCU and second-oldest public university in Louisiana.

Virginia College opened in October 2010 and offers students training in areas such as cosmetology, business, health, and medical billing. Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University is an independent Catholic institution also in the Baton Rouge medical district that has programs in nursing, health sciences, humanities, behavioral sciences, and arts and sciences. It has an associated hospital, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.[138] Tulane University planned to open a satellite medical school at Baton Rouge General's Mid City Campus in 2011.[139]

Southeastern Louisiana University School of Nursing is located in the medical district on Essen Lane in Baton Rouge. Southeastern offers traditional baccalaureate and master's degree programs, as well as LPN and RN to BSN articulation. Baton Rouge Community College is an open-admission, two-year post-secondary public community college, established on June 28, 1995. The college settled into a permanent location in 1998. The college's enrollment is more than 8,000 students.[140] The Pennington Biomedical Research Center houses 48 laboratories and 19 core research facilities.[141]

Primary and secondary schools

East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools operates primary and secondary schools serving the city. The city of Baton Rouge is also home to 27 charter schools with a total enrollment of an estimated 11,000 students as of 2020.[142] One of the latest includes the Mentorship Academy in downtown Baton Rouge, which leverages its location downtown to establish internship opportunities with local businesses as well as provide a high-tech classroom environment to focus on a digital animation curriculum.[143]

The East Baton Rouge Parish School System is the second-largest public school system in the state and contains nine U.S. Blue Ribbon schools and a nationally renowned Magnet program. The school system serves more than 42,850 students and with the help of 6,250 teachers and faculty, the district has shown growth and increase in its District Performance Score. The East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools serve East Baton Rouge Parish and has 90 schools with 56 elementary schools, 16 middle schools, and 18 high schools.[144]

Libraries

 
State Library of Louisiana

The State Library of Louisiana is in Baton Rouge. The Louisiana Legislature created the Louisiana Library Commission in 1920. This later became the State Library of Louisiana. The State Library provides Louisiana residents with millions of items with its collections, electronic resources, and the statewide network for lending.[145]

The East Baton Rouge Parish Library System has 14 local libraries with one main library and 13 community libraries. The main library at Goodwood houses genealogy and local history archives. The library system is an entity of the city-parish government. The system has been in operation since 1939. It is governed by the EBR Parish government and directed by the Library Board of Control. The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council appoints the seven-member board and then the board appoints a director. According to its website, all branches are open seven days a week to assist the public with reference and information and computer access.[146]

The Louisiana State Archives' Main Research Library is located in Baton Rouge, as well. It houses general history books, census indices, immigration schedules, church records, and family histories. The library also has a computerized database of more than two million names that has various information about these people including census, marriage, and social security filing information.[147]

Louisiana State University and the Louisiana State University Law Center have libraries on their respective Baton Rouge campuses.[148] Southern University and A&M College and the Southern University Law Center also have libraries on their respective Baton Rouge campuses.[149]

Media

See also: List of newspapers in Louisiana, List of radio stations in Louisiana, and List of television stations in Louisiana
 
The Advocate office

The major daily newspaper for the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area is The Advocate, publishing since 1925. Until 1991, Baton Rouge also had an evening newspaper, The State-Times—at that time, the morning paper was known as The Morning Advocate. Other publications include: Baton Rouge Parents Magazine, Pink & Blue Magazine, The Daily Reveille, The Southern Review, 225 magazine, DIG, Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, inRegister magazine, 10/12 magazine, Country Roads magazine, 225Alive, Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge, Southern University Digest, and The South Baton Rouge Journal.

Other newspapers in East Baton Rouge Parish include the Central City News and The Zachary Post. The Greater Baton Rouge area is well served by television and radio. The market is the 95th-largest designated market area in the U.S. Major television network affiliates serving the area include:

Baton Rouge also offer local government-access television-only channels on Cox Cable channel 21.

Infrastructure

Health and medicine

 
Ochsner Medical Center

Baton Rouge is served by several hospitals and clinics:

Communication

Most of the Baton Rouge area's high-speed internet, broadband, and fiber optic communications are provided by Eatel, AT&T Inc., Charter Communications, or Cox Communications.[150] In 2006, Cox Communications linked its Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans markets with fiber-optic infrastructure. Other providers soon followed suit, and fiber optics have thus far proven reliable in all hurricanes since they were installed, even when mobile and broadband services are disrupted during storms. In 2001, the Supermike computer at Louisiana State University was ranked as the number-one computer cluster in the world,[151] and remains one of the top 500 computing sites in the world.[152]

Military installations

Baton Rouge is home station to the Louisiana Army National Guard 769th Engineer Battalion,[153] which had units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The armory near LSU has three company-sized units: 769th HSC (headquarters support company); 769th FSC (forward support company); and the 927th Sapper Company. Other units of the battalion are located at Napoleonville (928th Sapper Company); Baker, Louisiana (926th MAC mobility augmentation company); and Gonzales, Louisiana (922nd Horizontal Construction Company).

The 769th Engineer Battalion is part of the 225th Engineer Brigade, headquartered in Pineville, Louisiana, at Camp Beauregard. Four engineer battalions and an independent bridging company are in the 225th Engineer Brigade, making it the largest engineer group in the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Baton Rouge is also home to 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment (3/23),[154] a reserve infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps located throughout the Midwestern United States consisting of about 800 marines and sailors. The battalion was first formed in 1943 for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, taking part in a number of significant battles including those at Saipan and Iwo Jima before being deactivated at the end of the war. In the early 1960s, the unit was reactivated as a reserve battalion. The battalion is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, with outlying units throughout the Midwestern United States. 3/23 falls under the command of the 23rd Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division.

Transportation

Highways and roads

Interstates

Baton Rouge has three interstate highways: I-10, I-12 (Republic of West Florida Parkway), and I-110 (Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway).

 
Interstate 10

Interstate 10 enters the city from the Horace Wilkinson Bridge over the Mississippi River, curving at an interchange with Interstate 110 southeast, crossing the LSU lakes and Garden District before reaching an interchange with I-12 (referred to as the 10/12 split). It curves further southeast toward New Orleans as it crosses Essen Lane near the Medical District. It passes Bluebonnet Blvd and the Mall of Louisiana at exit 162, and leaves Baton Rouge after interchanges with Siegen Lane and Highland Road.

Interstate 12 (The Republic of West Florida Parkway) begins in the city at the I-10/I-12 split east of College Drive, and proceeds eastward, crossing Essen Lane, Airline Hwy, Sherwood Forest Blvd, Millerville Road, and O'neal Lane before leaving the city when crossing the Amite River.

Interstate 110 (The Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway) stretches 8 miles in a north–south direction from the east end of the Horace Wilkinson Bridge to Scenic Highway in Scotlandville, Louisiana. It passes through downtown, North Baton Rouge, and Baton Rouge Metro Airport before ending at Scenic Highway.

U.S. highways and major roads

Baton Rouge has two U.S. highways, along with their business counterparts: Airline Highway (US 61) and Florida Boulevard.

U.S. 190 enters the city from the Huey P. Long Bridge, beginning a concurrency with U.S. 61 after an interchange with Scenic Highway, near Scotlandville. Its name is Airline Highway from this interchange to the interchange with Florida Blvd. At this interchange, U.S. 190 turns east to follow Florida Blvd through Northeast Baton Rouge, exiting the city at the Amite River.

U.S. 61 enters Baton Rouge as Scenic Highway until it reaches Airline Highway (U.S. 190). It becomes concurrent with U.S. 190 until Florida Blvd, where it continues south, still called Airline Highway. It passes through Goodwood and Broadmoor before an interchange with I-12. It continues southeast past Bluebonnet Blvd/Coursey Blvd, Jefferson Hwy, and Sherwood Forest Blvd/Siegen Lane before exiting the city at Bayou Manchac.

U.S. 61/190 Business runs west along Florida Boulevard (known as Florida Street from Downtown east to Mid City) from Airline Highway to River Road in downtown. The cosigned routes run from Florida St. north along River Road, passing the Louisiana State Capitol and Capitol Park Complex before intersecting with Choctaw Drive. North of this intersection River Road becomes Chippewa Street and curves to the East. U.S. 61/190 Business leaves Chippewa Street at its intersection with Scenic Highway. The route follows Scenic Highway to Airline Highway, where it ends. North of Airline on Scenic and East of Scenic Highway on Airline is US 61. U.S. 190 is East and West of Scenic on Airline Highway.

These are important surface streets with designated state highway numbers: Greenwell Springs Road (LA 37), Plank Road/22nd Street (LA 67), Burbank Drive/Highland Road (LA 42), Nicholson Drive (LA 30), Jefferson Highway/Government Street (LA 73), Scotlandville/Baker/Zachary Highway (LA 19), Essen Lane (LA 3064), Bluebonnet Blvd/Coursey Blvd (LA 1248), Siegen Lane/Sherwood Forest Blvd (LA 3246), and Perkins Road/Acadian Thruway (LA 427).

Traffic issues and highway upgrades

According to the 2008 INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, which ranks the top 100 congested metropolitan areas in the U.S., Baton Rouge was the 33rd-most congested metro area in the country. At a population rank of 67 out of 100, it has the second-highest ratio of population rank to congestion rank, higher than even the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area, indicating a remarkably high level of congestion for the comparatively low population. According to the Scorecard, Baton Rouge was the only area out of all 100 to show an increase in congestion from 2007 to 2008 (+ 6%). The city also tied for the highest jump in congestion rank over the same period (14 places).[155]

Interstate 12 used to have a major bottleneck at O'Neal Lane. The interstate was three lanes wide in each direction to the O'Neal Lane exit, where the interstate abruptly became two lanes in each direction and crossed the narrow Amite River Bridge. This stretch of road, called "a deathtrap"[156] by one lawmaker, had become notorious for traffic accidents, many with fatalities. In 2007, ten people died in traffic accidents within a three-month period on this section of road.[157] In 2009, Governor Bobby Jindal and the Baton Rouge legislative delegation allocated state and federal funding to widen I-12 from O'Neal Lane to Range Avenue (Exit 10) in Denham Springs. The construction was completed in 2012 and has significantly improved the flow of traffic.[158] In 2010, The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided committed federal funds to widen I-12 from the Range Avenue Exit to Walker, Louisiana. Noticing the significant improvement in commute times, Jindal further funded widening to Satsuma, Louisiana.

Interstate 10 West at Bluebonnet Road also ranked within the top 1000 bottlenecks for 2008, and I-10 East at Essen Lane and Nicholson Drive ranked not far out of the top 1000. A new exit to the Mall of Louisiana was created in 2006, and the interstate was widened between Bluebonnet Blvd and Siegen Lane. But the stretch of I-10 from the I-10/I-12 split to Bluebonnet Blvd was not part of these improvements and remained heavily congested during peak hours. In response, a widening project totaling at least $87 million began in late 2008. Interstate 10 was widened to three lanes over a five-year period between the I-10/I-12 split and Highland Road.[159] In 2010, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided supplemental funding for this project to extend to the Highland Road exit in East Baton Rouge Parish.[160] Commute times have since plummeted for this section of interstate.[citation needed]

Surface streets in Baton Rouge are prone to severe congestion. But roads are beginning to handle the number of vehicles using them after years of stagnation in road upgrades. Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden has instituted an extensive upgrade of East Baton Rouge Parish roads known as the Green Light Plan, geared toward improving areas of congestion on the city's surface streets. With its first project completed in 2008, it has seen numerous others reach completion as of 2015, with several more under construction and still others yet to break ground.[161]

A circumferential loop freeway was proposed for the greater Baton Rouge metro area to help alleviate congestion on the existing through-town routes. The proposed loop would pass through the outlying parishes of Livingston (running alongside property owned and marketed as an industrial development by Al Coburn, a member of President Mike Grimmer's staff), Ascension, West Baton Rouge, and Iberville, as well as northern East Baton Rouge Parish. This proposal has been subject to much contention, particularly by residents living in the outer parishes through which the loop would pass.[162] Other suggestions considered by the community are upgrading Airline Highway (U.S. 61) to freeway standards in the region as well as establishing more links between East Baton Rouge Parish and its neighboring communities.

Commuting

The average one-way commute time in Baton Rouge is 26.5 minutes,[163] slightly less than the U.S. average of 27.1 minutes.[164] Interstates 10, 110 and 12, which feed into the city, are highly traveled and connected by highways and four-lane roads that connect the downtown business area to surrounding parishes.[165]

According to the 2016 American Community Survey, 81.9% of working Baton Rouge residents commuted by driving alone, 8.5% carpooled, 3% used public transportation, and 2.4% walked. About 1.2% used all other forms of transportation, including taxi, bicycle, and motorcycle. About 3.1% worked at home.[166] The city of Baton Rouge has a higher than average percentage of households without a car. In 2015, 10.4 percent of Baton Rouge households lacked a car, and increased slightly to 11.4 percent in 2016. The national average was 8.7 percent in 2016. Baton Rouge averaged 1.55 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8.[167]

Buses and other mass transit

Capital Area Transit System (CATS) provides urban transportation throughout Baton Rouge, including service to Southern University, Baton Rouge Community College, and Louisiana State University. Many CATS buses are equipped with bike racks for commuters to easily combine biking with bus transit. Greyhound Bus Lines, offering passenger and cargo service throughout the United States, has a downtown terminal on Florida Boulevard.

Shipping

The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth-largest in the United States by tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships.[16][17]

Airport

 
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport drop off lane

Located 10 minutes north of downtown near Baker, the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport connects the area with the four major airline hubs serving the southern United States. Commercial carriers include American Eagle, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines. Nonstop service is available to Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and Charlotte.

Rail

Three major rail lines, Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific, and Canadian National provide railroad freight service to Baton Rouge.[168]

The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley station had passenger service until the mid-1960s. The Kansas City Southern depot hosted the Southern Belle, the final train to serve the city, until 1969.[169][170] Since 2006, Baton Rouge and New Orleans leaders as well as the state government have been pushing to secure funding for a new high-speed rail passenger line between downtown Baton Rouge and downtown New Orleans, with several stops in between.[171]

Sister cities

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Total area for the City of Baton Rouge, not all of East Baton Rouge Parish
  2. ^ Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the highest and lowest temperature readings during an entire month or year) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020.
  3. ^ Because the Louisiana uses parishes, the equivalent of a county in other states, in the state this form of government is called a "consolidated city-parish".

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Baton Rouge redirects here For other uses see Baton Rouge disambiguation Baton Rouge ˌ b ae t en ˈ r uː ʒ BAT en ROOZH from French Baton Rouge red stick is a city in and the capital of the U S state of Louisiana Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish 3 Louisiana s most populous parish the equivalent of counties in other U S states 4 Since 2020 it has been the second largest city in Louisiana after New Orleans Baton Rouge is the 18th most populous state capital According to the 2020 United States census 5 the city proper had a population of 227 470 its consolidated population was 456 781 in 2020 6 The city is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area Louisiana s second largest metropolitan area with a population of 870 569 as of 2020 7 up from 802 484 in 2010 8 Baton Rouge Louisiana Baton Rouge French State capital city and Consolidated city parishCity of Baton RougeFrom top left to right Downtown Old Louisiana State Capitol Louisiana State Capitol St Joseph Cathedral Huey P Long Bridge Tiger Stadium LSU USS KiddFlagSealCoat of armsWordmarkNicknames Red Stick The Capital City B R Interactive map of Baton RougeCoordinates 30 26 51 N 91 10 43 W 30 44750 N 91 17861 W 30 44750 91 17861 Coordinates 30 26 51 N 91 10 43 W 30 44750 N 91 17861 W 30 44750 91 17861Country United StatesState LouisianaParishEast Baton RougeFounded1699Settled1721IncorporatedJanuary 16 1817Government Mayor PresidentSharon Weston Broome 1 D Area 2 State capital city and Consolidated city parish88 52 sq mi 229 27 km2 Land86 32 sq mi 223 56 km2 Water2 20 sq mi 5 71 km2 Total note 1 79 11 sq mi 204 89 km2 Elevation56 ft 17 m Population 2020 State capital city and Consolidated city parish227 470 RankUS 99th Density2 635 32 sq mi 1 017 50 km2 Urban631 326 US 67th Urban density1 592 9 sq mi 615 0 km2 Metro870 569 US 66th DemonymBaton RougeanTime zoneUTC 6 CST Summer DST UTC 5 CDT ZIP Codes70801 70817 70819 70823 70825 70827 70831 70833 70835 70837 70874 70879 70883 70884 70892 70896 70898Area code225FIPS code22 05000GNIS feature ID1629914Interstate highwaysU S routesWebsitewww wbr brla wbr govThe Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding In addition it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low lying agricultural areas 9 It is a culturally rich center with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants It was ruled by seven different governments French British and Spanish in the colonial era the Republic of West Florida as a United States territory and state Confederate and United States again since the end of the American Civil War Through the various occupying national governments of Baton Rouge the city and its metropolitan area have developed as a multicultural region practicing many religious traditions from Catholicism to Protestantism and Louisiana and Haitian Vodou the area has also become home to a sizeable lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community 10 and elected the first open LGBT politician for the Louisiana Public Service Commission 11 Baton Rouge is a major industrial petrochemical medical research motion picture 12 and growing technology center of the American South 13 It is the location of Louisiana State University the LSU system s flagship university and the state s largest institution of higher education 14 It is also the location of Southern University the flagship institution of the Southern University System the nation s only historically black college system 15 The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth largest in the U S by tonnage shipped and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships 16 17 Major corporations participating in the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area s economy include Amazon Lamar Advertising Company BBQGuys Marucci Sports Piccadilly Restaurants Raising Cane s Chicken Fingers ExxonMobil Brown amp Root Shell and Dow Chemical Company Contents 1 History 1 1 Pre history 1 2 Colonial period 1 3 Incorporation and growth 2 Geography 2 1 Climate 3 Demographics 3 1 Racial and ethnic composition 3 2 Sexual orientation and identity 3 3 Religion and spirituality 4 Economy 5 Culture and arts 5 1 Arts and theater 5 2 Miss USA pageants 5 3 Tourism and recreation 6 Sports 7 Parks and recreation 7 1 National protected areas 8 Government 8 1 Metropolitan council 9 Education 9 1 Primary and secondary schools 9 2 Libraries 10 Media 11 Infrastructure 11 1 Health and medicine 11 2 Communication 12 Military installations 13 Transportation 13 1 Highways and roads 13 1 1 Interstates 13 1 2 U S highways and major roads 13 1 3 Traffic issues and highway upgrades 13 2 Commuting 13 3 Buses and other mass transit 13 4 Shipping 13 5 Airport 13 6 Rail 14 Sister cities 15 See also 16 Explanatory notes 17 References 17 1 Citations 17 2 General sources 18 External links 18 1 Geology and geological hazardsHistory EditMain articles History of Baton Rouge Louisiana and Timeline of Baton Rouge Louisiana Pre history Edit Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000 6500 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi Comite and Amite rivers 18 19 Earthwork mounds were built by hunter gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period from roughly the fourth millennium BC 20 The speakers of the Proto Muskogean language divided into its descendant languages by about 1000 BC and a cultural boundary between either side of Mobile Bay and the Black Warrior River began to appear between about 1200 BC and 500 BC a period called the Middle Gulf Formational Stage The Eastern Muskogean language began to diversify internally in the first half of the first millennium AD 21 The early Muskogean societies were the bearers of the Mississippian culture which formed around 800 AD and extended in a vast network across the Mississippi and Ohio valleys with numerous chiefdoms in the Southeast as well By the time the Spanish made their first forays inland from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the early 16th century by some evidence many political centers of the Mississippians were already in decline or abandoned At the time this region appeared to have been occupied by a collection of moderately sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups 22 Other evidence indicates these Mississippian settlements were thriving at the time of the first Spanish contact Later Spanish expeditions encountered the remains of groups who had lost many people and been disrupted in the aftermath of infectious diseases chronic among Europeans unknowingly introduced by the first expedition Colonial period Edit Further information Louisiana New France West Florida and Red Sticks Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d Iberville named Baton Rouge and lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas in the early French colonial era French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d Iberville led an exploration party up the Mississippi River in 1698 The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayagoula tribal hunting grounds The French name le baton rouge the red stick is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma red pole 23 Andre Joseph Penicaut a carpenter traveling with d Iberville published the first full length account of the expedition in 1723 According to Penicaut From there Manchacq we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called ecorts in that region and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick baton rouge as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations namely the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge named the Oumas The red pole was presumably at Scott s Bluff on what is now the campus of Southern University 24 It was reportedly a 30 foot high 9 1 m painted pole adorned with fish bones 25 European settlement of Baton Rouge began in 1721 when French colonists established a military and trading post Since then Baton Rouge has been governed by France Britain Spain Louisiana the Republic of West Florida the United States the Confederate States and the United States again In 1755 when French speaking settlers of Acadia in Canada s Maritime provinces were expelled by British forces many took up residence in rural Louisiana Popularly known as Cajuns the descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture During the first half of the 19th century Baton Rouge grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade and transportation Incorporation and growth Edit Baton Rouge in 1863 Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817 In 1822 the Pentagon Barracks complex of buildings was completed The site has been used by the Spanish French British Confederate States Army and United States Army and was part of the short lived Republic of West Florida 26 In 1951 ownership of the barracks was transferred to the state of Louisiana In 1976 the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 27 Acquisition of Louisiana by the United States in 1803 was a catalyst for increased Anglo American settlement especially in the northern part of the state In 1846 the state legislature designated Baton Rouge as Louisiana s new capital to replace sinful New Orleans The architect James Dakin was hired to design the old Louisiana State Capitol with construction beginning in late 1847 24 Rather than mimic the United States Capitol as many other states had done he designed a capitol in Neo Gothic style complete with turrets and crenellations and stained glass it overlooks the Mississippi It has been described as the most distinguished example of Gothic Revival architecture in the state and has been designated as a National Historic Landmark 28 By the outbreak of the American Civil War the population of Baton Rouge was nearly 5 500 The war nearly halted economic progress except for businesses associated with supplying the Union Army occupation of the city which began in the spring of 1862 and lasted for the duration of the war The Confederates at first consolidated their forces elsewhere during which time the state government moved to Opelousas and later Shreveport 24 In the summer of 1862 about 2 600 Confederate troops under generals John C Breckinridge the former Vice President of the United States and Daniel Ruggles attempted to recapture Baton Rouge After the war New Orleans temporarily served as the seat of the Reconstruction era state government When the Bourbon Democrats regained power in 1882 after considerable intimidation and voter suppression of black Republicans they returned the state government to Baton Rouge where it has since remained In his 1893 guidebook Karl Baedeker described Baton Rouge as the Capital of Louisiana a quaint old place with 10 378 inhabitants on a bluff above the Mississippi 29 In the 1950s and 1960s the petrochemical industry boomed in Baton Rouge stimulating the city s expansion beyond its original center The changing market in the oil business has produced fluctuations in the industry affecting employment in the city and area A building boom began in the city in the 1990s and continued into the 2000s during which Baton Rouge was one of the fastest growing cities in the Southern United States in terms of technology 30 Metropolitan Baton Rouge was ranked as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the U S with a population under 1 million with 602 894 in 2000 and 802 484 people as of the 2010 U S census 31 After the extensive damage in New Orleans and along the coast from Hurricane Katrina on August 29 2005 the city took in as many as 200 000 displaced residents In 2010 Baton Rouge started a market push to become a test city for Google s new super high speed fiber optic line known as GeauxFiBR 32 In July 2016 the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area was heavily affected by the shooting of Alton Sterling 33 their death led to multiple protests and the shooting of police officers 34 35 36 37 President Barack Obama also made remarks on the shooting of Alton Sterling 38 By February 2021 Sterling s family was given a 4 5 million settlement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit 39 40 In August 2016 the city and metropolitan area were severely flooded 41 42 During the runoff for District 3 of the Louisiana Public Service Commission in December 2022 many Baton Rougeans helped elect Davante Lewis the first openly LGBT politician to the state government 43 11 Geography Edit Baton Rouge as viewed from the International Space Station in May 2011 looking west The city of Baton Rouge lies on the banks of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana s Florida Parishes region 44 The city is about 79 miles 127 km from New Orleans 45 126 miles 203 km from Alexandria 46 56 miles 90 km from Lafayette and 250 miles 400 km from Shreveport 47 It is also 173 miles 278 km from Jackson Mississippi and 272 miles 438 km from Houston Texas 48 49 Baton Rouge lies on a low elevation of 56 to a little over 62 feet above sea level 50 Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana and the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish According to the United States Census Bureau the city has an area of 79 15 square miles 205 0 km2 of which 76 95 square miles 199 3 km2 are land and 2 2 square miles 5 7 km2 2 81 are covered by water 51 The city is on the first set of bluffs north of the Mississippi River Delta s coastal plains Because of its prominent location along the river and on the bluffs which prevents flooding the French built a fort in the city in 1719 52 Baton Rouge is the third southernmost capital city in the continental United States after Austin Texas and Tallahassee Florida It is the cultural and economic center of the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area Climate Edit Climate data for Baton Rouge Louisiana Metropolitan Airport 1991 2020 normals note 2 extremes 1892 presentMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 85 29 88 31 93 34 96 36 101 38 103 39 103 39 110 43 104 40 98 37 89 32 88 31 110 43 Mean maximum F C 77 25 80 27 84 29 88 31 92 33 96 36 97 36 97 36 95 35 91 33 84 29 80 27 98 37 Average high F C 62 3 16 8 66 6 19 2 73 0 22 8 79 1 26 2 85 8 29 9 90 5 32 5 91 9 33 3 92 2 33 4 88 7 31 5 80 9 27 2 71 0 21 7 64 3 17 9 78 9 26 1 Daily mean F C 52 0 11 1 55 9 13 3 62 0 16 7 68 0 20 0 75 5 24 2 81 0 27 2 82 9 28 3 82 8 28 2 78 8 26 0 69 5 20 8 59 4 15 2 53 8 12 1 68 5 20 3 Average low F C 41 6 5 3 45 3 7 4 51 0 10 6 56 9 13 8 65 1 18 4 71 5 21 9 73 8 23 2 73 3 22 9 68 9 20 5 58 1 14 5 47 8 8 8 43 3 6 3 58 0 14 4 Mean minimum F C 24 4 29 2 33 1 40 4 51 11 64 18 69 21 67 19 56 13 41 5 31 1 27 3 23 5 Record low F C 9 13 2 17 20 7 31 1 40 4 53 12 58 14 58 14 43 6 30 1 21 6 8 13 2 17 Average precipitation inches mm 6 36 162 4 42 112 4 46 113 5 08 129 5 23 133 6 45 164 5 09 129 6 37 162 4 42 112 4 84 123 3 90 99 5 32 135 61 94 1 573 Average snowfall inches cm 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 51 0 2 0 51 Average precipitation days 0 01 in 9 9 8 9 8 9 8 0 8 2 11 6 13 2 11 8 8 6 7 3 8 0 9 7 114 1Average snowy days 0 1 in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1Average relative humidity 74 1 70 9 70 0 70 6 72 3 74 4 77 2 77 7 76 9 72 8 74 6 74 7 73 8Source NOAA relative humidity 1961 1990 53 54 55 Baton Rouge 2016 Louisiana flood Baton Rouge has a humid subtropical climate Koppen Cfa with mild winters hot and humid summers moderate to heavy rainfall and the possibility of damaging winds and tornadoes yearlong The area s average precipitation is 61 94 inches 141 1 cm of rain and 0 1 inches 0 25 cm of snow annually With ample precipitation Baton Rouge is fifth on the list of wettest cities in the United States Snow in the Baton Rouge area is usually rare although it snowed in three consecutive years at the first decade of the 21st century December 11 2008 December 4 2009 and February 12 2010 in 2017 Baton Rouge received snow again 56 The yearly average temperature for Baton Rouge is 68 4 F 20 2 C while the average temperature for January is 51 7 F 10 9 C and July is 83 0 F 28 3 C 53 The area is usually free from extremes in temperature with some cold winter fronts but those are usually brief 57 Baton Rouge s proximity to the Gulf of Mexico exposes the city and metropolitan area to hurricanes On September 1 2008 Hurricane Gustav struck the city and became the worst hurricane ever to hit the Baton Rouge area 58 Winds topped 100 miles per hour 160 km h knocking down trees and powerlines and making roads impassable 59 The roofs of many buildings suffered tree damage especially in the Highland Road Garden District and Goodwood areas The city was shut down for five days and a curfew was put in effect Rooftop shingles were ripped off signs blew down and minor structural damage occurred Demographics EditHistorical populationCensus Pop 1810469 18402 269 18503 90572 1 18605 42839 0 18706 49819 7 18807 19710 8 189010 47845 6 190011 2697 5 191014 89732 2 192021 78246 2 193030 72941 1 194034 71913 0 1950125 629261 8 1960152 41921 3 1970165 9218 9 1980220 39432 8 1990219 531 0 4 2000227 8183 8 2010229 4930 7 2020227 470 0 9 U S Decennial Census 60 2018 Estimate 61 Prior to colonization American Indians were once the primary residents of present day Baton Rouge With the coming of European colonization and the migration of American settlers after the Louisiana Purchase European and African descended peoples became the predominant groups in the area by birth rates and immigration to a 1860 population of 5 428 Since reaching its first historic high of 220 394 residents at the 1980 U S census the city s population has expanded and contracted twice from 219 531 in 1990 to 227 818 in 2000 the second historic high and 229 493 the city proper s third historic high in 2010 62 to 227 470 at the 2020 census 5 Including the consolidated city parish of Baton Rouge in 2019 East Baton Rouge Parish the American Community Survey estimated 443 763 people lived in the area 6 In 2020 the U S Census Bureau determined 456 781 people lived in the consolidated city parish 63 The metropolitan population of Baton Rouge increased to 3 6 as a result of suburbanization in 2019 to an estimated 854 884 64 In 2020 the metropolitan statistical area s population increased to 870 569 residents 7 reflecting southern Louisiana s population growth in contrast with northern Louisiana s stagnation and decline 65 In 2019 the city of Baton Rouge had a population density of 2 982 5 people per square mile 62 Racial and ethnic composition Edit Racial and ethnic composition 2020 66 2010 67 African Americans 53 5 54 5 White 34 2 37 8 Hispanic or Latino of any race 5 94 3 5 Asian Americans 3 21 3 5 Native Americans 0 17 0 5 Pacific Islander 0 03 Two or more races 2 89 1 3 With the population growth of European and African descended peoples in present day Baton Rouge the American Indian population declined to one of the smallest minority groups in the area With the increase among people of color during the 20th century Baton Rouge has also declined as a predominantly non Hispanic white city hastened by suburbanization and white flight In 1970 non Hispanic whites represented 70 5 of the population 68 by 2010 they represented 37 8 of the total population According to the 2020 United States census Black or African Americans made up 53 55 of the city proper s population according to census estimates in 2021 Black or African Americans made up the largest share of youths 69 The remaining racial and ethnic makeup for the city in 2020 was 34 22 non Hispanic white 0 17 American Indian and Alaska Native 3 21 Asian 0 03 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 2 89 two or more races and 5 95 Hispanic and Latino American of any race 66 the growing Hispanic and Latino population reflected increasing trends of nationwide diversification 70 Among the population of the city and metropolitan area a substantial number also identify as Cajun or Louisiana Creole Sexual orientation and identity Edit During the middle of the 20th century The Advocate and other region wide newspapers discriminated against the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community 71 In 1969 the Krewe of Apollo an LGBT social club originating from nearby New Orleans developed a sister branch for Baton Rouge its annual drag balls were targets of further discrimination 71 Since then other organizations have been established such as Capital City Alliance 72 and the area has grown a sizeable LGBT community holding festivals such as Baton Rouge Pride 10 Religion and spirituality Edit Steeple of St Joseph Cathedral cathedral see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge Native American religions and Afrodiasporic religions were commonplace alongside Christianity in Baton Rouge s early history Due to French Spanish and British colonialism and missionary work however in addition to American settlement Baton Rouge became a predominantly Christian city and metropolitan area According to a study by the Association of Religion Data Archives in 2020 Christianity has remained the most practiced religion for the Baton Rouge area being influenced by Catholicism and Protestantism In 2020 ARDA reported there were 61 congregations and 174 410 Catholics within the metropolitan area its Catholic population is primarily served by the Latin Church s Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of New Orleans The Southern Baptist Convention was the second largest individual Christian denomination with 208 congregations and 91 293 members following the United Methodists had 28 924 members and the National Baptist Convention had 15 532 adherents in 25 churches Non denominational Protestants were spread out in 270 churches numbering 102 500 73 According to a separate study by Sperling s BestPlaces other notable Christian bodies in the area have included Anglicans or Episcopalians Pentecostals Presbyterians Latter Day Saints and Lutherans 74 Christians including Jehovah s Witnesses the Metropolitan Community Church Christian Unitarians and the Eastern Orthodox among others collectively made up 14 of the Sperling s study other Christian demographic Notable Anglican or Episcopalian jurisdictions operating throughout the Greater Baton Rouge area have included the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana aligned with the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States 75 and the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of Mid America and the Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast aligned with the Anglican Church in North America 76 Baton Rouge s Pentecostal communities are mainly affiliated with the Assemblies of God USA and the Church of God in Christ 77 and Presbyterians are mainly members of the Presbyterian Church USA 78 According to ARDA in 2020 the Church of God in Christ is the area s largest Pentecostal denomination by membership 73 Sperling s BestPlaces reported that the second largest religion in Baton Rouge and its metropolitan area was Islam 74 There are currently over six mosques in the Baton Rouge area primarily affiliated with Sunni Islam The Nation of Islam is also another prominent branch of the religion practiced 79 The Muslim population has grown out of Middle Eastern immigration and African American Muslim missionary work 80 The first Islamic private school in Baton Rouge was established in 2019 81 As of 2019 Orthodox Jews made up 0 2 of Baton Rouge s religious population and 0 6 identified with eastern faiths including Buddhism and Hinduism according to Sperling s 74 New religious movements including contemporary paganism have small communities in the area 82 and a minority practice Haitian Vodou Louisiana Voodoo and Hoodoo According to Sperling s 2019 study 31 9 of the population identified as either spiritual but not religious agnostic or atheist Economy Edit The former CB amp I local office on Essen Lane a commercial office corridor Baton Rouge enjoys a strong economy that has helped the city be ranked as one of the Top 10 Places for Young Adults in 2010 by portfolio com and one of the top 20 cities in North America for economic strength by the Brookings Institution 83 84 In 2009 the city was ranked by CNN as the 9th best place in the country to start a new business 85 Lamar Advertising Company has its headquarters in Baton Rouge 86 Other notable companies headquartered in the city include BBQGuys Marucci Sports Piccadilly Restaurants and Raising Cane s Chicken Fingers 87 Notable corporations which have established offices or distribution centers in the Baton Rouge area have included Amazon in 2021 and Microsoft 88 89 90 Chicago Bridge amp Iron Company had an office in Baton Rouge before being sold in 2017 91 Baton Rouge is the farthest inland port on the Mississippi River that can accommodate ocean going tankers and cargo carriers The ships transfer their cargo grain oil cars containers at Baton Rouge onto rails and pipelines to travel east west or barges to travel north Deep draft vessels cannot pass the Old Huey Long Bridge because the clearance is insufficient In addition the river depth decreases significantly just to the north near Port Hudson 92 The ExxonMobil oil refinery seen from the capitol tower Baton Rouge s largest industry is petrochemical production and manufacturing ExxonMobil s Baton Rouge Refinery complex is the fifth largest oil refinery in the country 93 it is the world s tenth largest Baton Rouge also has rail highway pipeline and deep water access 94 Dow Chemical Company has a large plant in Iberville Parish near Plaquemine 17 miles 27 km south of Baton Rouge 95 Shaw Construction Turner and Harmony all started with performing construction work at these plants In addition to being the state capital and parish seat the city is the home of Louisiana State University which employs over 5 000 academic staff 96 One of the largest single employers in Baton Rouge is the state government which consolidated all branches of state government downtown at the Capitol Park complex 97 The city has a substantial medical research and clinical presence Research hospitals have included Our Lady of the Lake Our Lady of the Lake Children s Hospital affiliated with St Jude Children s Research Hospital Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Earl K Long closed 2013 98 Together with an emerging medical corridor at Essen Lane Summa Avenue and Bluebonnet Boulevard Baton Rouge is developing a medical district expected to be similar to the Texas Medical Center LSU and Tulane University have both announced plans to construct satellite medical campuses in Baton Rouge to partner with Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center and Baton Rouge General Medical Center respectively 85 Southeastern Louisiana University and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University both have nursing schools in the medical district off Essen Lane Louisiana State University s Pennington Biomedical Research Center which conducts clinical and biological research also contributes to research related employment in the area around the Baton Rouge medical district The film industry in Louisiana has increased dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century aided by generous tax incentives adopted by the state in 2002 In September 2013 the Baton Rouge Film Commission reported that the industry had brought more than 90 million into the local economy in 2013 99 Baton Rouge s largest production facility is the Celtic Media Centre opened in 2006 by a local group in collaboration with Raleigh Studios of Los Angeles Raleigh dropped its involvement in 2014 100 Culture and arts Edit Raising Cane s Baton Rouge River Center in DowntownBaton Rouge is a culturally distinct area of Louisiana where Cajun and Creole Catholic culture from Greater New Orleans and Acadiana is syncretized with the African American Baptist culture of the Florida Parishes and South Mississippi The city of Baton Rouge is a college town with Baton Rouge Community College Louisiana State University Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University and Southern University located throughout the city limits the students of Louisiana State University alone make up 20 of the city population 101 In a sizable international population of over 11 300 as of 2008 the largest groups were people of Hispanic and Latino or Vietnamese descent This contributes to Baton Rouge s unique culture and diversity 102 Arts and theater Edit Shaw Center for the Arts in Downtown Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade 2014 Baton Rouge has an expanding visual arts scene which is centered downtown Professional performing arts organizations include Theatre Baton Rouge the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre Opera Louisiane and Playmakers a professional Children s Theatre This increasing collection of venues includes the Shaw Center for the Arts 103 Opened in 2005 the facility houses the Brunner Gallery LSU Museum of Art the Manship Theatre a contemporary art gallery traveling exhibits and several eateries Another prominent facility is the Louisiana Art and Science Museum 104 which contains the Irene W Pennington Planetarium traveling art exhibits space displays and an ancient Egyptian section Several smaller art galleries including the Baton Rouge Gallery offering a range of local art are scattered throughout the city The city has several designated arts and cultural districts 105 the most prominent of which are the Mid City Cultural District and the Perkins Road Arts District These districts provide tax incentives mostly in the form of exempting state tax on purchases to promote cultural activity in these areas A performing arts scene is emerging LSU s Swine Palace is the foremost theatre company in the city largely made up of students of LSU s MFA acting program as well as professional actors and stage managers 106 A group of physical theatre and circus artists from LSU traveled to Edinburgh Scotland in summer 2012 to perform Dante in what has become the world s largest Fringe Festival The show ran in Baton Rouge before going to Fringe and featured movement acrobatics and aerial silk 107 Theatre Baton Rouge offers a diverse selection of live theatre performances Opera Louisiane is Baton Rouge s only professional opera company 108 The Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre is Baton Rouge s professional ballet company The Nutcracker A Tale from the Bayou sets the familiar holiday classic in 19th century Louisiana and has become a Baton Rouge holiday tradition A Tale from the Bayou features professional dancers a live orchestra and more than 300 area children Baton Rouge is also home to Forward Arts a youth writing organization Forward Arts won the international youth poetry slam Brave New Voices in 2017 and was the first team from the Southern United States to ever win the competition Forward Arts is the only youth spoken word organization in the state of Louisiana It was founded by Dr Anna West in 2005 and first housed in the Big Buddy Program 109 110 Baton Rouge is also home to Of Moving Colors Productions the premier contemporary dance company in the city 111 112 For more than 30 years it has brought in internationally established choreographers to create stunning performances In addition they conduct extensive community outreach to children and young adults Performing venues include the Baton Rouge River Center Baton Rouge River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts which seats about 1 900 the Manship Theatre which is located in the Shaw Center for the Arts and seats 350 and the Reilly Theater which is home to Swine Palace a nonprofit professional theater company associated with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has operated since 1947 and currently performs at the River Center Music Hall downtown 113 Today it presents more than 60 concerts annually directed by Timothy Muffitt and David Torns 113 The BRSO s educational component the Louisiana Youth Orchestra made its debut in 1984 It includes almost 180 musicians under the age of 20 Miss USA pageants Edit Miss Louisiana USA Brittany Guidry Miss USA 2014 Preliminary Evening Gown Competition Baton Rouge was chosen to host the Miss USA 2014 Pageant It took over downtown Baton Rouge as Nia Sanchez Miss Nevada USA took home the crown with Miss Louisiana USA Brittany Guidry coming in fourth Veteran pageant host Giuliana Rancic and MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts introduced the 51 contestants there were 20 semifinalists Cosmo weighed in on the contest complimenting Guidry 114 Celebrity judges included actress Rumer Willis NBA star Karl Malone singer Lance Bass and actor Ian Ziering 115 Baton Rouge hosted Miss USA 2015 again on July 12 2015 which was won by actress and Miss Oklahoma USA Olivia Jordan Baton Rouge was also the site of the 2005 Miss Teen USA Pageant 116 Tourism and recreation Edit See also Points of Interest of Baton Rouge USS Kidd located downtown on the river is part of the Louisiana Naval Museum The Now And Then African American Museum Baton Rouge s many architectural points of interest range from antebellum to modern The neo gothic Old Louisiana State Capitol was built in the 1850s as the first statehouse in Baton Rouge It was later replaced by the 450 ft tall art deco New Louisiana State Capitol the tallest building in the South when it was completed Several plantation homes in the area such as Magnolia Mound Plantation House Myrtles Plantation and Nottoway Plantation showcase antebellum era architecture Louisiana State University has more than 250 buildings in Italian Renaissance style one of the nation s largest college stadiums and many live oaks The downtown has several examples of modern and contemporary buildings including the Capitol Park Museum 117 A number of structures including the Baton Rouge River Center Louisiana State Library LSU Student Union Louisiana Naval Museum Bluebonnet Swamp Interpretive Center Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center Louisiana State Archive and Research Library and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center were designed by local architect John Desmond 118 The Pentagon Barracks Museum and Visitors Center is within the barracks complex and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum 119 Museums around town offer a variety of genres The Capitol Park Museum and the Old Louisiana State Capitol Museum display information on state history and have many interactive exhibits The Shaw Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Art and Science Museum showcase varied arts LASM also includes science exhibits and a planetarium Other museums include the LSU Museum of Natural Science and the USSKidd The Odell S Williams Now And Then African American Museum chronicles the progression and growth of African Americans Other attractions include the Mall of Louisiana and Perkins Rowe amusement parks of Dixie Landin Blue Bayou and dining at the Louisiana cuisine restaurants The 2nd Annual Slam d amp Cam d Car Show slated for July 10 2021 was scheduled to begin after the cancellation of the 2020 show due to the pandemic The 2021 show planned to present than 300 muscle cars and include TV personality Courtney Hansen and MotorTrend Group s Iron Resurrection stars Joe and Amanda Martin 120 Sports Edit A W Mumford Stadium of Southern University College sports play a major role in the culture of Baton Rouge The LSU Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars are NCAA Division I athletic programs with the LSU Tigers football and Southern Jaguars football teams being the local college American football teams College baseball basketball and gymnastics are also popular 121 122 Much of the city s sport s attention is focused on the professional teams in Greater New Orleans Baton Rouge has had multiple minor league baseball teams the Baton Rouge Red Sticks soccer teams Baton Rouge Bombers indoor football teams a basketball team and a hockey team Baton Rouge Kingfish The Baton Rouge Rugby Football Club or Baton Rouge Redfish 7 which began playing in 1977 has won numerous conference championships Currently the team competes in the Deep South Rugby Football Union 123 The city also has an Australian rules football team the Baton Rouge Tigers which began playing in 2004 and competes in the USAFL In addition Baton Rouge is home to Red Stick Roller Derby a WFTDA Division 3 roller derby league Baton Rouge is also home to the Baton Rouge Soccer Club in the Gulf Coast Premier League and the Baton Rouge Rougarou a college summer league baseball team and member of the Texas Collegiate League in 2022 it was announced USL League Two would establish a team in Baton Rouge named Louisiana Parish AC 124 following the establishment of other teams in Lafayette and Shreveport 125 126 Parks and recreation Edit Nottoway Plantation located near White Castle 26 miles 42 km south of Baton Rouge Baton Rouge has an extensive park collection presided over by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge BREC The largest park is City Park near the Louisiana State University flagship campus Another notable park is Highland Road Community Park spanning over 144 acres 58 ha The Baton Rouge Zoo is also run through BREC and includes over 1 800 species 127 National protected areas Edit The city is home to 7 national protected areas and at least 15 places on the National Register of Historic Places Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Baton Rouge National Cemetery Independence Park Botanic Gardens Laurens Henry Cohn Sr Memorial Plant Arboretum LSU Hilltop Arboretum Magnolia Cemetery and Port Hudson National Cemetery Among its protected areas the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area extends the length of the Atchafalaya Basin from the area of Ferriday in the north to the river s mouth beyond Morgan City the designation provides a framework for the promotion and interpretation of the area s cultural and historic character and the preservation of the natural and built environment 128 The Cohn Arboretum previously served as the site for the Cohn family s home its land was donated in 1965 and the arboretum opened in 1980 129 LSU s arboretum was originally developed in 1929 and donated to the university in 1981 130 Government Edit A map of East Baton Rouge Parish districts The city of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge have been run by a consolidated government since 1947 It combined the Baton Rouge municipal government with the rural areas of the parish allowing people outside the limits of the city of Baton Rouge to use city services Though the city and parish have a consolidated government this differs slightly from a traditional consolidated city county note 3 government The cities of Zachary Baker and Central operate their own city governments within East Baton Rouge Parish Under this system Baton Rouge has the uncommon office of mayor president which consolidates the executive offices of mayor of Baton Rouge and president of East Baton Rouge Parish Though Zachary Baker and Central each have their own mayors citizens living in these municipalities are still a part of the constituency who can vote and run in elections for mayor president and metropolitan council 131 The mayor president s duties include setting the agenda for the government and managing the government s day to day functions They are also responsible for supervising departments as well as appointing the department heads The mayor does not set the city s public policy because that is the Metropolitan Council s role but the mayor president does have some influence on the policy through appointments and relationships with council members The current mayor president of Baton Rouge is Sharon Weston Broome a former Louisiana State legislator A Democrat Broome succeeded Kip Holden also a Democrat on January 2 2017 after defeating Bodi White in a close runoff on December 10 2016 132 She served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 2004 and in the Louisiana State Senate from 2004 to 2016 She was elected by the senate to serve as the Senate President Pro Tempore from 2008 to 2016 1 131 133 Metropolitan council Edit A map of Baton Rouge City Council partisanship When the city and parish combined government the city and parish councils consolidated to form the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council The Metropolitan Council is the legislative branch of the Baton Rouge government Its 12 district council members are elected from single member districts They elect from among themselves the mayor presidentpro tempore The mayor president pro tempore presides over the council s meetings and assumes the role of the mayor president if the mayor president is unable to serve The council members serve four year terms and can hold office for three terms In the late 1960s Joe Delpit a local African American businessman owning and operating the Chicken Shack 134 was elected as the first black council member in Baton Rouge As in other cities of Louisiana and the South African Americans had been largely disenfranchised for decades into the 20th century 135 The Chicken Shack with multiple locations in 2015 was reported as the oldest continually operating business in Baton Rouge 136 The Metropolitan Council s main responsibilities are setting the policy for the government voting on legislation and approving the city s budget The council makes policies for the following the city and parish general funds all districts created by the council the Greater Baton Rouge Airport District the Public Transportation Commission the East Baton Rouge Parish Sewerage Control Commission and the Greater Baton Rouge Parking Authority 131 Education EditMain article Education in Baton Rouge Louisiana Louisiana State University aerial Baton Rouge is home to many universities Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU is a public coeducational university that is the flagship campus of the Louisiana State University System LSU is Louisiana s largest university with over 30 000 students and 1 300 full time faculty members 137 Southern University and A amp M College generally known as Southern University or SU is the flagship institution of the Southern University System the nation s only historically black land grant university system SU is the largest HBCU and second oldest public university in Louisiana Virginia College opened in October 2010 and offers students training in areas such as cosmetology business health and medical billing Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University is an independent Catholic institution also in the Baton Rouge medical district that has programs in nursing health sciences humanities behavioral sciences and arts and sciences It has an associated hospital Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 138 Tulane University planned to open a satellite medical school at Baton Rouge General s Mid City Campus in 2011 139 Southeastern Louisiana University School of Nursing is located in the medical district on Essen Lane in Baton Rouge Southeastern offers traditional baccalaureate and master s degree programs as well as LPN and RN to BSN articulation Baton Rouge Community College is an open admission two year post secondary public community college established on June 28 1995 The college settled into a permanent location in 1998 The college s enrollment is more than 8 000 students 140 The Pennington Biomedical Research Center houses 48 laboratories and 19 core research facilities 141 Primary and secondary schools Edit Baton Rouge High School East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools operates primary and secondary schools serving the city The city of Baton Rouge is also home to 27 charter schools with a total enrollment of an estimated 11 000 students as of 2020 142 One of the latest includes the Mentorship Academy in downtown Baton Rouge which leverages its location downtown to establish internship opportunities with local businesses as well as provide a high tech classroom environment to focus on a digital animation curriculum 143 The East Baton Rouge Parish School System is the second largest public school system in the state and contains nine U S Blue Ribbon schools and a nationally renowned Magnet program The school system serves more than 42 850 students and with the help of 6 250 teachers and faculty the district has shown growth and increase in its District Performance Score The East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools serve East Baton Rouge Parish and has 90 schools with 56 elementary schools 16 middle schools and 18 high schools 144 Libraries Edit State Library of Louisiana The State Library of Louisiana is in Baton Rouge The Louisiana Legislature created the Louisiana Library Commission in 1920 This later became the State Library of Louisiana The State Library provides Louisiana residents with millions of items with its collections electronic resources and the statewide network for lending 145 The East Baton Rouge Parish Library System has 14 local libraries with one main library and 13 community libraries The main library at Goodwood houses genealogy and local history archives The library system is an entity of the city parish government The system has been in operation since 1939 It is governed by the EBR Parish government and directed by the Library Board of Control The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council appoints the seven member board and then the board appoints a director According to its website all branches are open seven days a week to assist the public with reference and information and computer access 146 The Louisiana State Archives Main Research Library is located in Baton Rouge as well It houses general history books census indices immigration schedules church records and family histories The library also has a computerized database of more than two million names that has various information about these people including census marriage and social security filing information 147 Louisiana State University and the Louisiana State University Law Center have libraries on their respective Baton Rouge campuses 148 Southern University and A amp M College and the Southern University Law Center also have libraries on their respective Baton Rouge campuses 149 Media EditSee also List of newspapers in Louisiana List of radio stations in Louisiana and List of television stations in Louisiana The Advocate office The major daily newspaper for the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area is The Advocate publishing since 1925 Until 1991 Baton Rouge also had an evening newspaper The State Times at that time the morning paper was known as The Morning Advocate Other publications include Baton Rouge Parents Magazine Pink amp Blue Magazine The Daily Reveille The Southern Review 225 magazine DIG Greater Baton Rouge Business Report inRegister magazine 10 12 magazine Country Roads magazine 225Alive Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge Southern University Digest and The South Baton Rouge Journal Other newspapers in East Baton Rouge Parish include the Central City News and The Zachary Post The Greater Baton Rouge area is well served by television and radio The market is the 95th largest designated market area in the U S Major television network affiliates serving the area include 2 WBRZ TV ABC 9 WAFB CBS 20 KZUP CD Independent 21 WBRL CD The CW 27 WLPB PBS LPB 30 WLFT CD Independent 33 WVLA NBC 36 KBTR CD This TV 39 WBXH CD My Network TV 44 WGMB Fox Baton Rouge also offer local government access television only channels on Cox Cable channel 21 Infrastructure EditHealth and medicine Edit Ochsner Medical Center Baton Rouge is served by several hospitals and clinics Baton Rouge General Medical Center Mid City Campus Baton Rouge General Medical Center Bluebonnet Campus HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Our Lady of the Lake Children s Hospital Ochsner Medical Complex The GroveCommunication Edit Most of the Baton Rouge area s high speed internet broadband and fiber optic communications are provided by Eatel AT amp T Inc Charter Communications or Cox Communications 150 In 2006 Cox Communications linked its Lafayette Baton Rouge and New Orleans markets with fiber optic infrastructure Other providers soon followed suit and fiber optics have thus far proven reliable in all hurricanes since they were installed even when mobile and broadband services are disrupted during storms In 2001 the Supermike computer at Louisiana State University was ranked as the number one computer cluster in the world 151 and remains one of the top 500 computing sites in the world 152 Military installations EditBaton Rouge is home station to the Louisiana Army National Guard 769th Engineer Battalion 153 which had units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan The armory near LSU has three company sized units 769th HSC headquarters support company 769th FSC forward support company and the 927th Sapper Company Other units of the battalion are located at Napoleonville 928th Sapper Company Baker Louisiana 926th MAC mobility augmentation company and Gonzales Louisiana 922nd Horizontal Construction Company The 769th Engineer Battalion is part of the 225th Engineer Brigade headquartered in Pineville Louisiana at Camp Beauregard Four engineer battalions and an independent bridging company are in the 225th Engineer Brigade making it the largest engineer group in the US Army Corps of Engineers Baton Rouge is also home to 3rd Battalion 23rd Marine Regiment 3 23 154 a reserve infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps located throughout the Midwestern United States consisting of about 800 marines and sailors The battalion was first formed in 1943 for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II taking part in a number of significant battles including those at Saipan and Iwo Jima before being deactivated at the end of the war In the early 1960s the unit was reactivated as a reserve battalion The battalion is headquartered in Saint Louis Missouri with outlying units throughout the Midwestern United States 3 23 falls under the command of the 23rd Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division Transportation EditHighways and roads Edit Interstates EditBaton Rouge has three interstate highways I 10 I 12 Republic of West Florida Parkway and I 110 Martin Luther King Jr Expressway Horace Wilkinson Bridge Interstate 10 Interstate 10 enters the city from the Horace Wilkinson Bridge over the Mississippi River curving at an interchange with Interstate 110 southeast crossing the LSU lakes and Garden District before reaching an interchange with I 12 referred to as the 10 12 split It curves further southeast toward New Orleans as it crosses Essen Lane near the Medical District It passes Bluebonnet Blvd and the Mall of Louisiana at exit 162 and leaves Baton Rouge after interchanges with Siegen Lane and Highland Road Interstate 12 The Republic of West Florida Parkway begins in the city at the I 10 I 12 split east of College Drive and proceeds eastward crossing Essen Lane Airline Hwy Sherwood Forest Blvd Millerville Road and O neal Lane before leaving the city when crossing the Amite River Interstate 110 The Martin Luther King Jr Expressway stretches 8 miles in a north south direction from the east end of the Horace Wilkinson Bridge to Scenic Highway in Scotlandville Louisiana It passes through downtown North Baton Rouge and Baton Rouge Metro Airport before ending at Scenic Highway U S highways and major roads Edit Baton Rouge has two U S highways along with their business counterparts Airline Highway US 61 and Florida Boulevard U S 190 enters the city from the Huey P Long Bridge beginning a concurrency with U S 61 after an interchange with Scenic Highway near Scotlandville Its name is Airline Highway from this interchange to the interchange with Florida Blvd At this interchange U S 190 turns east to follow Florida Blvd through Northeast Baton Rouge exiting the city at the Amite River Huey P Long Bridge U S 61 enters Baton Rouge as Scenic Highway until it reaches Airline Highway U S 190 It becomes concurrent with U S 190 until Florida Blvd where it continues south still called Airline Highway It passes through Goodwood and Broadmoor before an interchange with I 12 It continues southeast past Bluebonnet Blvd Coursey Blvd Jefferson Hwy and Sherwood Forest Blvd Siegen Lane before exiting the city at Bayou Manchac U S 61 190 Business runs west along Florida Boulevard known as Florida Street from Downtown east to Mid City from Airline Highway to River Road in downtown The cosigned routes run from Florida St north along River Road passing the Louisiana State Capitol and Capitol Park Complex before intersecting with Choctaw Drive North of this intersection River Road becomes Chippewa Street and curves to the East U S 61 190 Business leaves Chippewa Street at its intersection with Scenic Highway The route follows Scenic Highway to Airline Highway where it ends North of Airline on Scenic and East of Scenic Highway on Airline is US 61 U S 190 is East and West of Scenic on Airline Highway These are important surface streets with designated state highway numbers Greenwell Springs Road LA 37 Plank Road 22nd Street LA 67 Burbank Drive Highland Road LA 42 Nicholson Drive LA 30 Jefferson Highway Government Street LA 73 Scotlandville Baker Zachary Highway LA 19 Essen Lane LA 3064 Bluebonnet Blvd Coursey Blvd LA 1248 Siegen Lane Sherwood Forest Blvd LA 3246 and Perkins Road Acadian Thruway LA 427 Traffic issues and highway upgrades Edit According to the 2008 INRIX National Traffic Scorecard which ranks the top 100 congested metropolitan areas in the U S Baton Rouge was the 33rd most congested metro area in the country At a population rank of 67 out of 100 it has the second highest ratio of population rank to congestion rank higher than even the Los Angeles Long Beach Santa Ana metropolitan area indicating a remarkably high level of congestion for the comparatively low population According to the Scorecard Baton Rouge was the only area out of all 100 to show an increase in congestion from 2007 to 2008 6 The city also tied for the highest jump in congestion rank over the same period 14 places 155 Interstate 12 used to have a major bottleneck at O Neal Lane The interstate was three lanes wide in each direction to the O Neal Lane exit where the interstate abruptly became two lanes in each direction and crossed the narrow Amite River Bridge This stretch of road called a deathtrap 156 by one lawmaker had become notorious for traffic accidents many with fatalities In 2007 ten people died in traffic accidents within a three month period on this section of road 157 In 2009 Governor Bobby Jindal and the Baton Rouge legislative delegation allocated state and federal funding to widen I 12 from O Neal Lane to Range Avenue Exit 10 in Denham Springs The construction was completed in 2012 and has significantly improved the flow of traffic 158 In 2010 The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided committed federal funds to widen I 12 from the Range Avenue Exit to Walker Louisiana Noticing the significant improvement in commute times Jindal further funded widening to Satsuma Louisiana Interstate 10 West at Bluebonnet Road also ranked within the top 1000 bottlenecks for 2008 and I 10 East at Essen Lane and Nicholson Drive ranked not far out of the top 1000 A new exit to the Mall of Louisiana was created in 2006 and the interstate was widened between Bluebonnet Blvd and Siegen Lane But the stretch of I 10 from the I 10 I 12 split to Bluebonnet Blvd was not part of these improvements and remained heavily congested during peak hours In response a widening project totaling at least 87 million began in late 2008 Interstate 10 was widened to three lanes over a five year period between the I 10 I 12 split and Highland Road 159 In 2010 the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided supplemental funding for this project to extend to the Highland Road exit in East Baton Rouge Parish 160 Commute times have since plummeted for this section of interstate citation needed Surface streets in Baton Rouge are prone to severe congestion But roads are beginning to handle the number of vehicles using them after years of stagnation in road upgrades Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden has instituted an extensive upgrade of East Baton Rouge Parish roads known as the Green Light Plan geared toward improving areas of congestion on the city s surface streets With its first project completed in 2008 it has seen numerous others reach completion as of 2015 with several more under construction and still others yet to break ground 161 A circumferential loop freeway was proposed for the greater Baton Rouge metro area to help alleviate congestion on the existing through town routes The proposed loop would pass through the outlying parishes of Livingston running alongside property owned and marketed as an industrial development by Al Coburn a member of President Mike Grimmer s staff Ascension West Baton Rouge and Iberville as well as northern East Baton Rouge Parish This proposal has been subject to much contention particularly by residents living in the outer parishes through which the loop would pass 162 Other suggestions considered by the community are upgrading Airline Highway U S 61 to freeway standards in the region as well as establishing more links between East Baton Rouge Parish and its neighboring communities Commuting Edit The average one way commute time in Baton Rouge is 26 5 minutes 163 slightly less than the U S average of 27 1 minutes 164 Interstates 10 110 and 12 which feed into the city are highly traveled and connected by highways and four lane roads that connect the downtown business area to surrounding parishes 165 According to the 2016 American Community Survey 81 9 of working Baton Rouge residents commuted by driving alone 8 5 carpooled 3 used public transportation and 2 4 walked About 1 2 used all other forms of transportation including taxi bicycle and motorcycle About 3 1 worked at home 166 The city of Baton Rouge has a higher than average percentage of households without a car In 2015 10 4 percent of Baton Rouge households lacked a car and increased slightly to 11 4 percent in 2016 The national average was 8 7 percent in 2016 Baton Rouge averaged 1 55 cars per household in 2016 compared to a national average of 1 8 167 Buses and other mass transit Edit Capital Area Transit System CATS provides urban transportation throughout Baton Rouge including service to Southern University Baton Rouge Community College and Louisiana State University Many CATS buses are equipped with bike racks for commuters to easily combine biking with bus transit Greyhound Bus Lines offering passenger and cargo service throughout the United States has a downtown terminal on Florida Boulevard Shipping Edit The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth largest in the United States by tonnage shipped and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships 16 17 Airport Edit Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport drop off lane Located 10 minutes north of downtown near Baker the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport connects the area with the four major airline hubs serving the southern United States Commercial carriers include American Eagle United Airlines and Delta Air Lines Nonstop service is available to Atlanta Dallas Fort Worth Houston and Charlotte Rail Edit Three major rail lines Kansas City Southern Union Pacific and Canadian National provide railroad freight service to Baton Rouge 168 The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley station had passenger service until the mid 1960s The Kansas City Southern depot hosted the Southern Belle the final train to serve the city until 1969 169 170 Since 2006 Baton Rouge and New Orleans leaders as well as the state government have been pushing to secure funding for a new high speed rail passenger line between downtown Baton Rouge and downtown New Orleans with several stops in between 171 Sister cities EditCairo Cairo Governorate Egypt since 1951 172 Rouen Seine Maritime France since 1963 173 Taichung Taiwan since 1976 174 Ciudad Obregon Sonora Mexico since 1977 175 Port au Prince Ouest Haiti since 1978 176 Liege Liege Province Belgium since 1985 177 Aix en Provence Bouches du Rhone France since 1987 178 Cordoba Veracruz Mexico since 2002 179 Heze Shandong China since 2008 180 Malatya Malatya Province Turkey since 2009 181 Guiyang Guizhou China since 2010 182 See also Edit United States portal France portal North America portal History portal Louisiana portal Cities portalBaton Rouge Police Department BREADA Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance Cancer Alley East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff s Office Louisiana Technology Park List of people from Baton Rouge Louisiana List of U S cities with large Black populations List of U S communities with African American majority populationsExplanatory notes Edit Total area for the City of Baton Rouge not all of East Baton Rouge Parish Mean monthly maxima and minima i e the highest and lowest temperature readings during an entire month or year calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020 Because the Louisiana uses parishes the equivalent of a county in other states in the state this form of government is called a consolidated city parish References EditCitations Edit a b Office of Mayor President Baton 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