Basile, Louisiana.
Typical home $122,593 (+8.8% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$174 (+37%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,868 +9%
- $112,725$122,593 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,837 -7%
- $132,429$122,593 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.
- Basile$643
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Basile, LA rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Basile, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Basile is a town of 1,214 people in Acadia Parish. Half its households earn more than $52,415 a year and half less, against $45,562 across Acadia Parish. Unemployment in Acadia Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Acadia 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Basile is a small town in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, with a younger population than much of the country. Household incomes here run above the parish's, and homes cost less than in many parts of the United States. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights and little or no snow, while summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Across Acadia Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Acadia Parish Schools, Acadia General Hospital and Supreme Rice. Jobs across the parish grew over the past year, and unemployment there has eased. The typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Chicot State Park, a protected area with a lake, is a longer drive away and is a natural choice for time outdoors. The Louisiana State Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away. For something indoors, the Zigler Art Museum, a museum, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Acadia Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Acadia Parish had 14,889 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eunice weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Acadia Parish
- Acadia Parish SchoolsSchool district1,174FTE
- Sunland ConstructionPipeline, gas and oil, construction883
- TanMar RentalsOil field machinery and equipment rental or leasing522
- Supreme RiceBran and other residues of milling rice346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Acadia General HospitalGeneral hospital237FTE
- Louisiana State University-EuniceTwo-year college204
- Phoenix Forge GroupPipe fabricating made from purchased metal pipe195
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,250 people in all across the county; Basile has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Basile’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 Acadia Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Basile home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Basile$122,593
- 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.
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.
- Basile13
Zip codes with a Basile address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Basile — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.