Benton, Louisiana.
Typical home $351,167 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $2,000 . Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$875 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,522 +2%
- $342,645$351,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,168 +19%
- $295,999$351,167 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.
- Benton$1,843
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Benton, LA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Benton, Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Benton is a town of 2,048 people in Bossier Parish. Half its households earn more than $58,143 a year and half less, against $69,617 across Bossier Parish. Unemployment in Bossier Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bossier 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Benton is a small town and the seat of Bossier Parish, in northwest Louisiana. Household incomes here run below the parish's, while a typical home costs a good deal to buy and renting is not cheap either. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month but daytime highs staying above freezing, and summers are hot, with August the warmest; rain and the occasional melted snow add up to a wet year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Bossier Parish, the largest workplaces include Bossier Parish Schools, Willis-Knighton Bossier Health Center and Metro Aviation. Unemployment in the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has added jobs. A typical commute is a short one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Caddo Lake is a reservoir and Black Bayou is a river, both a longer drive away. The Gardens of the American Rose Center, also a longer drive away, is a botanical garden. Those who prefer an evening indoors can find the Strand Theatre, a theatre that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 952households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Bossier Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bossier Parish had 45,299 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton 5E weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bossier Parish
- Bossier Parish SchoolsSchool district2,803FTE
- Willis-Knighton Bossier Health CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,309
- Metro AviationEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground1,187
- Bossier Casino VenturesResort hotels with casinos690
- Horseshoe Bossier City509
- Bossier Parish Community CollegeTwo-year college489
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- Louisiana Downs Casino & RacetrackCasinos263
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,562 people in all across the county; Benton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Benton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Bossier Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
Benton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Benton$351,167
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Benton 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.
- Benton28.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Benton78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Benton18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Benton$329,657
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Benton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Benton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.