Arabi, Louisiana.
Typical home $228,906 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,338 . New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$433 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,315 +2%
- $224,591$228,906 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,262 -9%
- $251,168$228,906 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.
- Arabi$1,201
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Arabi, LA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arabi, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Arabi, in St. Bernard Parish, had 4,533 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $56,813 a year and half less, against $58,651 across St. Bernard Parish; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in St. Bernard Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arabi is a small community in St. Bernard Parish, just downriver from New Orleans, with a population that is neither young nor old for the country. Household incomes run a little below the parish's, and more people here live below the poverty line than the parish-wide picture might suggest. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and daytime highs that stay comfortable, while summers are hot and the year is quite wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, the building trades and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Arabi are ASR Group, a sugarcane refiner, along with Rallys, a full-service restaurant, and Fluor OM. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the parish has eased compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, a protected area of wetlands and trails, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the National World War II Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Louis Armstrong Park, a garden in the city, is close by as well. Lake Pontchartrain is a longer drive away, for a day by the water.
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- 1,905households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Bernard Parish had 11,268 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 70 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chalmette weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arabi
- ASR GroupSugarcane refining509
- RallysFullservice restaurant42
- Fluor OM25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 576 people in all. 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 high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arabi’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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. Bernard Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Arabi home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arabi$228,906
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Arabi listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Arabi19.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arabi46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arabi7
Zip codes with a Arabi address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arabi — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.