Amite, Louisiana.
Typical home $172,128 (-1.3% in a year). Hammond, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$230 (+34%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,274 -1%
- $174,401$172,128 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $50,628 -23%
- $222,756$172,128 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.
- Amite$903
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Amite, LA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Amite is a town of 4,005 people in Tangipahoa Parish. Half its households earn more than $44,636 a year and half less, against $56,760 across Tangipahoa Parish; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Tangipahoa Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Tangipahoa Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Amite is a small town in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern Louisiana, where the typical resident is in middle age and household incomes run below those across the parish. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and a great deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across the parish has eased over the past year, and job numbers have held steady. Relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. The Natalbany River lies a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Bogue Chitto State Park, a protected area, and the Global Wildlife Center, a zoo, while the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,496households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Tangipahoa Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tangipahoa Parish had 47,216 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Amite weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Amite
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Southland Steel FabricatorsBonderizing metal and metal products for the trade182
- Hood Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- AmiteMail and parcel delivery28
- Entergy Amite/BogalusaDistribution of electric power22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 531 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amite’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Tangipahoa Parish and the Hammond, LA metro.
Amite home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amite$172,128
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Amite listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Amite16.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Amite36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Amite6
Zip codes with a Amite address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amite — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.