Atlanta, Louisiana.
Typical home $124,306 (+3.5% in a year). Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $29 (-4%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,261 +4%
- $120,045$124,306 since Sep 2025
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.
- Atlanta$652
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Atlanta, LA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlanta, Winn Parish, Louisiana
Atlanta is a village of 149 people in Winn Parish. Unemployment in Winn Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Winn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atlanta is a very small village in Winn Parish, Louisiana, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and the year is a wet one, with plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and the building trades. Across Winn Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Winn Parish Schools, Weyerhaeuser and Winn Parish Medical Center. Unemployment in the parish has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Kisatchie National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away that suits walking and time outdoors. Also a longer drive away is Cane River, a river, and the Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site, a protected area with a history focus. Black Lake, a reservoir, is another longer drive away for anyone who likes to be near the water.
Report a mistake
What people in Winn Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winn Parish had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winnfield North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winn Parish
- Winn Parish SchoolsSchool district283FTE
- WeyerhaeuserLumber172
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- Central Management CoSkilled nursing facilities141
- Jeld-WenReconstituted wood product manufacturing134
- Winn Parish Medical CenterGeneral hospital118FTE
- Onyx Care of WinnfieldSkilled nursing facilities88
- Hunt Forest Products, LLC - WinnfieldSawmills40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 992 people in all across the county; Atlanta 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlanta’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 Winn Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Atlanta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlanta$124,306
- 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.
Zip codes with a Atlanta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlanta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.