Zip lookup · LA

70094
Westwego, Louisiana.

Westwego, Jefferson Parish, LA · New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro · population 32,130

What it costs per month · 70094 $928/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+38%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $402 +0%
$176,351$176,753 since Sep 2025
5 years
Down $18,869 -10%
$195,622$176,753 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 70094 $928 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 70094$928
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.

Typical home values in zip 70094 rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 70094 rose 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 70094 runs $341/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $407 in Dec 2025.

That is $1,194 a month against $1,535 rent: a $928 mortgage payment, plus $77 property tax and $189 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 70094

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,000 $1,200 $1,400 $1,600 2025 2026 Owning all in $1,194 Renting $1,535 Mortgage only $928
$1,000 $1,200 $1,400 $1,600 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$1,194
  • Renting$1,535
  • Mortgage only$928

Property tax · $77/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA

Insurance & upkeep · $189/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Westwego, LA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,535 as of Sep 2026
+1.4%year on year
Typical home value $176,753 as of Sep 2026
+0.2%year on year

Asking rent — 70094

Against the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2025 2026 70094 $1,535 New Orleans $1,577 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2025 2026
  • 70094$1,535
  • New Orleans$1,577
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 70094

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 70094 $176,753 New Orleans $257,067 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 70094$176,753
  • New Orleans$257,067
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 44 zips in range — sorting picks from all 44.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
2.7 70123 New Orleans 27,386 $1,540 $333,577
4.5 70121 New Orleans 10,558 $1,606 $254,224
5.5 70001 Metairie 38,950 $1,445 $312,078
5.5 70118 New Orleans 36,072 $1,807 $353,788
5.7 70031 Ama 1,483 — $230,817
6.0 70003 Metairie 39,344 $1,429 $271,444
6.1 70062 Kenner 17,771 $1,425 $229,301
6.4 70115 New Orleans 31,183 $1,679 $525,205
6.9 70125 New Orleans 17,821 $1,691 $277,280
7.1 70006 Metairie 16,170 $1,757 $340,811
7.4 70002 Metairie 19,426 $1,264 $349,076
7.5 70072 Marrero 55,693 $1,683 $220,661
7.6 70005 Metairie 24,088 $1,690 $411,282
7.8 70113 New Orleans 9,387 $2,486 $224,979
7.8 70087 Saint Rose 7,314 — $230,862
7.9 70070 Luling 13,960 $1,722 $283,715
8.4 70112 New Orleans 3,490 $1,739 $332,460
8.5 70065 Kenner 48,936 $1,639 $273,567
8.5 70119 New Orleans 37,253 $1,545 $292,020
8.5 70130 New Orleans 12,560 $1,794 $440,771
9.0 70058 Harvey 39,578 $1,285 $228,153
9.1 70124 New Orleans 21,778 $1,859 $500,025
9.3 70053 Gretna 16,621 $1,622 $209,574
9.4 70116 New Orleans 10,404 $1,675 $307,335
10.1 70047 Destrehan 13,220 $1,499 $294,408
10.4 70039 Boutte 1,993 — $203,451
10.7 70114 New Orleans 22,659 $1,458 $162,310
10.8 70056 Gretna 40,348 $1,498 $245,421
10.9 70122 New Orleans 35,253 $1,475 $219,813
11.4 70117 New Orleans 25,652 $1,502 $170,788

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.