Bastrop, Louisiana.
Typical home $93,862 (+7.6% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$175 (+55%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,634 +8%
- $87,228$93,862 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,405 +3%
- $91,457$93,862 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.
- Bastrop$493
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bastrop, LA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Bastrop is a city of 9,691 people in Morehouse Parish. Half its households earn more than $32,605 a year and half less, against $39,454 across Morehouse Parish; 40% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Morehouse Parish was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bastrop is a small Louisiana city and the seat of Morehouse Parish, with a young population compared with most of the country. Incomes here run below the parish's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Owners and renters are fairly evenly balanced among those who live here, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good number. Some of the largest workplaces in Bastrop are Walmart, Morehouse General Hospital and Lagniappe Healthcare. The typical commute is moderate, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the parish has eased compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center and the Rose Theatre offer indoor outings. A short drive away are Chemin-A-Haut State Park and Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas for walking and watching wildlife. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 3,506households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 40%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morehouse Parish had 6,261 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bastrop weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bastrop
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters274
- Morehouse General HospitalGeneral hospital203FTE
- Lagniappe HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities105
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers75
- Sterlington Critical Access HospitalRehabilitation hospital61FTE
- UsalcoAluminum compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing41
- BastropMail and parcel delivery35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 530 people in all. Hospitals come 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 stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bastrop’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 Morehouse Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Bastrop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bastrop$93,862
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bastrop 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.
- Bastrop21.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bastrop58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bastrop13
Zip codes with a Bastrop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bastrop — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.