Berwick, Louisiana.
Typical home $152,719 (-4.6% in a year). Morgan City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$214 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,430 -5%
- $160,149$152,719 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,747 -12%
- $174,466$152,719 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.
- Berwick$802
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Berwick, LA fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berwick, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Berwick is a town of 4,771 people in St. Mary Parish. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in St. Mary Parish was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berwick is a small town in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners elsewhere in the country would expect. A larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Very few work from home. Across St. Mary Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Mary Parish Schools, Bollinger Amelia Operations, a shipyard, and Ochsner St. Mary, a hospital. Unemployment in the parish is lower than it was a year earlier, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Bayou Teche, a river, and Lake Palourde are both a short drive away, and the Louisiana State Museum in Patterson is also close. For more room to roam, the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
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- 1,712households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Mary Parish had 19,370 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 45°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 76°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morgan City weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Mary Parish
- St. Mary Parish SchoolsSchool district1,094FTE
- Bollinger Amelia OperationsShipyard643
- Conrad Deepwater South and RepairBarge building454
- Ochsner St. MaryGeneral medical and surgical hospitals330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Conrad Morgan CityBarge building277
- SEACOR MarineBoat rental or leasing, commercial223
- OneSubsea BerwickOil and gas field-type drilling machinery and equipment manufacturing198
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,985 people in all across the county; Berwick has one of its own. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berwick’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 St. Mary Parish and the Morgan City, LA metro.
Berwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berwick$152,719
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Berwick 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berwick17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Berwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.