Cleaning Services in the City of Central, LA

Let us clear up the name first, because search engines get it wrong constantly. This page is about the City of Central in East Baton Rouge Parish -- not central Louisiana, which is a region more than a hundred miles to the northwest. Central is the parish's third-largest city with 29,565 residents, and at 62.26 square miles it is geographically the largest municipality in this region after Baton Rouge itself. Ten thousand-odd households spread across that much ground means large lots, long driveways and a semi-rural feel that surprises people who expect a suburb.

Central exists for one reason and residents will tell you so within a minute of meeting you: schools. The city incorporated on 23 April 2005 over parish opposition, specifically so it could run its own school district. A constitutional amendment followed in November 2006, and the Central Community School System opened on 1 July 2007 with four aging schools taken over from the East Baton Rouge Parish system. Zachary had done the same thing in 2003 and St. George would spend the next two decades trying. Central is the precedent that made the others thinkable.

And here is the thing that a cleaning company genuinely needs to understand: the City of Central has no postal city name at all. Its mail is addressed Greenwell Springs (70739), Pride (70770), Baker (70714) or Baton Rouge. A resident's own address does not say Central anywhere on it. So when you book, give us the ZIP and the road rather than the city name, and we will find you. It is not a small detail out here -- 62 square miles is a lot of ground on which to be approximately right.

The August 2016 flood hit this city hard, affecting roughly 25,000 residents, and like Livingston Parish next door a large share of the housing stock is post-flood rebuild. LA Highway 408 runs about seven miles west to I-110 and LA Highway 37 crosses it; between them they are how everybody here gets anywhere. Downtown Baton Rouge is 13.9 miles and about twenty-two minutes away.