Baker, Louisiana.
Typical home $182,604 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,225 . Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,647 +3%
- $177,958$182,604 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,643 +9%
- $167,962$182,604 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.
- Baker$958
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Baker, LA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baker, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Baker is a city of 12,455 people in East Baton Rouge Parish. Half its households earn more than $54,750 a year and half less, against $63,071 across East Baton Rouge Parish; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in East Baton Rouge Parish was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baker is a small city in East Baton Rouge Parish, home to a fairly young population, with residents younger on the whole than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Household incomes run below the parish's as a whole, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Baker are Walmart, Central Management, a nursing home operator, and the City of Baker School District. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Baton Rouge Zoo and the Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum, a botanical garden, are both in or beside town. A short drive away, the USS Kidd is a museum ship, and the Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge is another museum worth a visit. For a bigger outing, Tiger Stadium is a longer drive away.
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- 4,292households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. East Baton Rouge Parish had 270,640 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baton Rouge Ryan Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baker
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters308
- Central ManagementNursing homes126
- City of Baker School DistrictSchool district103FTE
- Impact Charter SchoolSchool district80FTE
- Insulation Sales and ServiceInsulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation64
- CMIMetals service centers47
- Baker Printing CompanyOffset printing32
- BakerMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 601 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of BakerRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of BakerRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BakerRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baker’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 East Baton Rouge Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Baker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baker$182,604
- 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 4 Baker 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.
- Baker24.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Baker57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Baker10
Zip codes with a Baker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.