Toilet Repair in Louisiana

Weighted across 607,776 occupied homes. Separately, 70% of the state’s 698,057 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 44 towns we route in here, 8 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 9 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 14 are strongly owner-occupied and 3 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Louisiana

Louisiana licenses are issued by the State Plumbing Board of Louisiana, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Abbeville 69% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Ama 87% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Arabi 71% owner-occupied · 80% pre-1990
• Arnaudville 81% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Barataria 96% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Belle Chasse 69% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Boutte 71% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Braithwaite 93% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Breaux Bridge 77% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Broussard 82% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Carencro 81% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Chalmette 60% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Delcambre 75% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Destrehan 77% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Duson 75% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Erath 78% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Grand Coteau 33% owner-occupied · 90% pre-1990
• Gretna 54% owner-occupied · 80% pre-1990
• Gueydan 85% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Harvey 63% owner-occupied · 79% pre-1990
• Jeanerette 83% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Kaplan 73% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Kenner 61% owner-occupied · 79% pre-1990
• La Place 79% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Lafayette 58% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Lafitte 81% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Loreauville 61% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Madisonville 95% owner-occupied · 11% pre-1990
• Mandeville 77% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Marrero 75% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Maurice 85% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Meraux 87% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Metairie 62% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
• New Iberia 65% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• New Orleans 51% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
• Opelousas 71% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Saint Bernard 78% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Saint Martinville 79% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Scott 71% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Slidell 74% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Sunset 78% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Violet 83% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Westwego 64% owner-occupied · 79% pre-1990
• Youngsville 86% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990