Bell City, Louisiana.
Typical home $207,830 (+5.0% in a year). Lake Charles, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$286 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,812 +5%
- $198,018$207,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,720 -7%
- $223,550$207,830 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.
- Bell City$1,091
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bell City, LA rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bell City, Cameron Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Bell City on its own, so the figures here are Cameron Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,278 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 95% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Cameron Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 14.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cameron Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bell City is a small town in Cameron Parish, in the southwest corner of Louisiana. Across the parish, the population is older than in the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are mild but damp, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall more heavily here than in most of the country.
Work. Across Cameron Parish, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs grew over the past year. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, building trades, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and most people travel some distance to reach their workplace.
Things to do. The Calcasieu River is one of the region's best-known waterways, a river a longer drive away from town. Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and Grand Lake, a lake, lies a longer drive off as well.
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- 2,018households
- 43.5median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Cameron Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cameron Parish had 4,601 jobs in 2025, 14.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 75°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Charles weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cameron Parish
- Worley Field Services, Inc., VG CP2Oil pipeline construction850
- Sabine Pass LNG-L.PGases, industrial, manufacturing507
- Venture Global LNGPipeline terminal facilities, independently operated457
- Cameron LNGPipeline terminal facilities, independently operated361
- Cameron Parish SchoolsSchool district250FTE
- Cheniere Ceinv178
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const163
- Performance Contractors, Inc. - Venture Global LNG-CameronConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,141 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cameron Parish, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Cameron Parish and the Lake Charles, LA metro.
Bell City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bell City$207,830
- 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 Bell City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bell City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.