East Feliciana Parish, LA

Home values #

Typical home $225,520 (Aug 2026), -0.1% over one year, +0.1% over five

• 46th pct · 1,648th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
• 77th pct · 15th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $176,099
• 44th pct · 6th of 10 counties in the Baton Rouge metro · median $230,516

Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.

Rents #

Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)

• US counties: not published this period
• Louisiana counties: not published this period
• counties in the Baton Rouge metro: not published this period

Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).

What the typical home costs to carry #

Principal and interest of $1,234 a month on $225,520 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,165 a month: 23.9% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $225,520 × 80% = $180,416, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,234/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,192 × 52 / 12 = $5,165) = 24% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $225,520 / ($1,192 × 52) = 3.6

The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.

Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.

Jobs & wages #

5,433 jobs at 403 employers (2026 Q1); +3.7% jobs and +9.4% average weekly wage over the year

• 39th pct · 1,953rd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 33rd pct · 43rd of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
• 44th pct · 6th of 10 counties in the Baton Rouge metro · median 9,323

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.

Drought #

D2 severe drought

Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.

US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.

Reservoirs #

No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)

Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.

Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.

Stream gauges #

76 gauges · 0 flooding · 2 with quality panels averaging 95 % · 19 stale

Sites found: 76, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.

Groundwater #

9 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 9, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.

Water stress #

moderate (0.34)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.2×0.05 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$336.3 m in deposits at 6 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,626, highly concentrated. $135.2 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $114.2 m, grants $18.8 m), $24,877 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 3,626 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 43.4² + 36.7² + 19.9² = 3,626

FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.

Federal obligations #

USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.

That is $24,877 per covered job, against 5,433 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $135.2 m / 5,433 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $24,877

USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.

National context, not this county #

These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.

The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.

What changed #

East Feliciana Parish, LA: 13 findings, 3 at a watch level and 10 noted

1. watchEast Feliciana Parish, LA's typical home value is -0.1% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026-08.
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   • test: home.yoyPct = -0.09091849993128676 < 0

   arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level

2. watchEast Feliciana Parish, LA's years of wages of 3.6 scores 35 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 78 across Louisiana counties, a gap of 43 points.

   Period 2026-08.
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   • 43 = |35 across US counties - 78 across Louisiana counties|
   • typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

3. watchEast Feliciana Parish, LA's typical home value of $225,520 scores 46 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 78 across Louisiana counties, a gap of 32 points.

   Period 2026-08.
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   • 32 = |46 across US counties - 78 across Louisiana counties|

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

4. noteEast Feliciana Parish, LA's average weekly wage was 9.4% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +9.4 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
   • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

5. noteEast Feliciana Parish, LA's covered employment was 3.7% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +3.7 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
   • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

Read all 12 findings in the full brief

Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.