Bernice, Louisiana.
Typical home $103,292 (-1.7% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$71 (+15%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,769 -2%
- $105,062$103,292 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,578 -19%
- $127,870$103,292 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.
- Bernice$542
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bernice, LA fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bernice, Union Parish, Louisiana
Bernice is a town of 1,356 people in Union Parish. Unemployment in Union Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bernice is a small town in Union Parish, in north Louisiana, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Union Parish sit below the national picture. Winters are mild, with cold spells in January and almost 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, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Union Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Case Farms, a poultry processor, Union Parish Schools, and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with unemployment in the parish lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Water and woods are the main draw, and all of it is a longer drive away. Lake D'Arbonne State Park is a protected area on the reservoir of the same name, and Lake Claiborne State Park offers a similar setting on another lake. For something indoors, the Dixie Center for the Arts is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Union Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union Parish had 5,513 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmerville weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union Parish
- Case FarmsPoultry processing1,593
- Union Parish SchoolsSchool district273FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Advancion - SterlingtonOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing174
- QSIJanitorial services126
- D'Arbonne Woods Charter SchoolSchool district118FTE
- Union General HospitalCritical access hospital114FTE
- Arbor Lake Skilled Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,565 people in all across the county; Bernice has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bernice’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 Union Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Bernice home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bernice$103,292
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bernice address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bernice — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.