Anacoco, Louisiana.
Typical home $174,433 (+4.6% in a year). Fort Polk South, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$358 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,688 +5%
- $166,745$174,433 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,816 +13%
- $154,617$174,433 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.
- Anacoco$916
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Anacoco, LA rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anacoco, Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Anacoco is a village of 851 people in Vernon Parish. Half its households earn more than $73,214 a year and half less, against $57,270 across Vernon Parish; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Vernon Parish was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vernon Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anacoco is a small village in Vernon Parish, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. It is a young place for the region, with a median age well under what many older communities see, and nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the parish, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in much of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Vernon Parish, the largest workplaces include Vernon Parish Schools, Byrd Regional Hospital and Walmart. The number of jobs in the parish slipped a little last year, and the commute to work is a fairly long one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Hodges Gardens State Park, a botanical garden, and Vernon Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for outdoor pursuits, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Toledo Bend Reservoir is a larger body of water that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 310households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Vernon Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon Parish had 12,525 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hodges Gardens weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon Parish
- Vernon Parish SchoolsSchool district1,122FTE
- Valiant Integrated ServicesNational security711
- Byrd Regional HospitalGeneral hospital360FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
- Amentum ServicesAutomotive repair and replacement shops, general319
- PRIDE IndustriesFacilities support services157
- Tanner Heavy EquipmentExcavation contractors148
- Woodlands Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,311 people in all across the county; Anacoco has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anacoco’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 Vernon Parish and the Fort Polk South, LA metro.
Anacoco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anacoco$174,433
- 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.
- Anacoco12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Anacoco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anacoco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.