Where did everyone go?
Baton Rouge has lost nearly 4,000 residents since 2020. The suburbs are still growing.
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Baton Rouge is spread out, spread thin
Baton Rouge has become one of America’s most sprawling cities, spending decades pushing outward one subdivision and strip mall at a time, swallowing vast amounts of land without adding many more people.
Now there's a report card for it. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s
It's not your forever neighbor
Nobody told you it was, which can become a problem when that tree-filled lot wants to become something else.
