Arcadia, Louisiana.
Typical home $104,413 (-9.5% in a year). Ruston, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$78 (+17%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,909 -9%
- $115,322$104,413 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,010 -22%
- $133,423$104,413 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.
- Arcadia$548
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Arcadia, LA fell 9.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Arcadia is a town of 2,746 people in Bienville Parish. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Bienville Parish was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bienville 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arcadia is a small town and the seat of Bienville Parish in north Louisiana. Incomes here are low, and more residents live below the poverty line than is typical across the country. A small majority of homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Arcadia are Bienville Parish Schools, Haynes International and Bienville Medical Center. Unemployment across Bienville Parish is a little lower than a year ago, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Claiborne State Park is a protected area on a reservoir, a longer drive away, and suits a day by the water. Lake Bistineau State Park, also a longer drive away, offers more lakeside parkland. For something indoors, the Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum is a museum a longer drive away. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
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- 1,351households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 42%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Bienville Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bienville Parish had 4,006 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bienville Northeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arcadia
- Bienville Parish SchoolsSchool district369FTE
- Haynes InternationalTubing, nonferrous metals, made from purchased metals or scrap203
- Onyx Care of ArcadiaSkilled nursing facilities127
- WilliamsStorage of natural gas126
- Bienville Medical CenterCritical access hospital71FTE
- Fayette Janitorial LLC - house of Raeford ArcadiaHousekeeping services50
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers45
- Tgnr Holdco LLC - Arcadia OfficeNatural gas production29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 580 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arcadia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Bienville Parish and the Ruston, LA metro.
Arcadia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arcadia$104,413
- 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.
- Arcadia7
Zip codes with a Arcadia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arcadia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.