Ama, Louisiana.
Typical home $231,531 (+1.3% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,011 +1%
- $228,520$231,531 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,497 -2%
- $236,027$231,531 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.
- Ama$1,215
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ama, LA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Ama, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Ama, in St. Charles Parish, had 1,290 people in the 2020 census. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in St. Charles Parish was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Charles Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ama is a small community in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the parish run somewhat above what is typical for the country. Winters are mild, with almost no snow, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services close behind. Across St. Charles Parish, some of the largest workplaces are St. Charles Parish Schools, the Shell Norco Refinery and Entergy. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away, Audubon Zoo is a good outing for a family or visiting grandchildren, and Bayou Segnette State Park is a protected area for being outdoors. NOLA Motorsports Park, a race track, is also a short drive. For a longer trip, the National World War II Museum is among the places worth the extra distance.
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- 550households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in St. Charles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Charles Parish had 23,194 jobs in 2025, 11.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Charles Parish
- St. Charles Parish SchoolsSchool district1,417FTE
- Shell Oil Products US - Norco RefineryRefinery gases made in petroleum refineries1,131
- The Dow Chemical Company, a subsidary of Union CarbideAccelerators manufacturing1,028
- EntergyDistribution of electric power703
- Bayer CropSciencePesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing670
- Valero St. Charles RefineryRefinery gases made in petroleum refineries549
- St. Charles Parish HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals502
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const388
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,656 people in all across the county; Ama has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ama’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on St. Charles Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Ama home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ama$231,531
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ama6
Zip codes with a Ama address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ama — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.