Bethany, Louisiana.
Typical home $240,953 (+12.8% in a year). Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$638 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,404 +13%
- $213,549$240,953 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,342 +35%
- $178,612$240,953 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.
- Bethany$1,265
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bethany, LA rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethany, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Bethany on its own, so the figures here are Caddo Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,705 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 60% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Caddo Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caddo Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethany is in Caddo Parish in northwest Louisiana, and the figures here are for the whole parish. Across the parish, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit more modestly than in much of the country. A notable share of residents live below the poverty line, and incomes are lower than in many other parts of the country.
Work. Unemployment across the parish has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, the typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Gardens of the American Rose Center, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and is a pleasant place to spend an afternoon. Caddo Lake, a reservoir, and the Meadows Museum of Art are both a longer drive away, and the lake suits anyone who enjoys being outdoors on the water.
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- 95,771households
- 39.5median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Caddo Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caddo Parish had 110,419 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shreveport Weather Office weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caddo Parish
- Willis-knighton Health SystemsGeneral hospital4,669FTE
- Caddo Parish SchoolsSchool district3,887FTE
- Ochsner LSU Health ShreveportGeneral hospital2,090FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,972
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,714
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportUniversity or college1,202
- Christus Shreveport-bossier Health SGeneral hospital989FTE
- Willis-Knighton South and the Center for Women's HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals888
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,370 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Caddo Parish, 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 Caddo Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
Bethany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethany$240,953
- 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 Bethany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bethany
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71033 | Greenwood | 3,297 | — | $252,805 |
| 71007 | Bethany | 1,354 | — | $231,050 |