St. Landry Parish, LA

Home values #

Typical home $139,485 (Aug 2026), -0.7% over one year, -16.4% over five

• 11th pct · 2,704th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
• 26th pct · 47th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $176,099

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 #

Typical rent $1,028/mo (Aug 2026), n/a over one year; price-to-rent 11.3

• 9th pct · 1,260th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
• 7th pct · 26th of 28 Louisiana counties · median $1,363

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 $763 a month on $139,485 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,099 a month: 18.6% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $139,485 × 80% = $111,588, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $763/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $946 × 52 / 12 = $4,099) = 19% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $139,485 / ($946 × 52) = 2.8
• price-to-rent = $139,485 / ($1,028 × 12) = 11.3

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 #

23,981 jobs at 2,152 employers (2026 Q1); +0.2% jobs and +5.3% average weekly wage over the year

• 74th pct · 825th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 73rd pct · 18th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187

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 #

D1 moderate 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 #

64 gauges · 0 flooding · 1 with quality panels averaging 67 % · 7 stale

Sites found: 64, 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 #

5 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 5, 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 (0.28)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 + 0.2×0.33 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$1.8 bn in deposits at 36 offices of 15 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,004, moderately concentrated. $593.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $518.5 m, grants $70.7 m), $24,741 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 1,004 across 15 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 15 banks with deposits in the county = 14.2² + 14.0² + 11.5² + … (12 more) = 1,004

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 $24,741 per covered job, against 23,981 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $593.3 m / 23,981 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $24,741

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 #

St. Landry Parish, LA: 10 findings, 1 at a watch level and 9 noted

1. watchSt. Landry Parish, LA's typical home value is -0.7% 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.
   Show the arithmetic

   • test: home.yoyPct = -0.73759051742693 < 0

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

2. noteSt. Landry Parish, LA's average weekly wage was 5.3% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +5.3 % = 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

3. noteSt. Landry Parish, LA's typical asking rent rose 1.8% from $1,010 in July 2026 to $1,028 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.

   Period 2026-08.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +1.8% = (1028.3333333333333 - 1009.8718808948215) / 1009.8718808948215 × 100
   • 1028.3333333333333 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
   • 1009.8718808948215 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07

4. noteSt. Landry Parish, LA's typical home value rose 0.6% from $138,621 in July 2026 to $139,485 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

   Period 2026-08.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +0.6% = (139485.18405777097 - 138621.22770965393) / 138621.22770965393 × 100
   • 139485.18405777097 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
   • 138621.22770965393 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07

5. noteSt. Landry Parish, LA's covered employment was 0.2% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
   Show the arithmetic

   • +0.2 % = 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 10 findings in the full brief

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