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Blanchard, Louisiana.

A town in Caddo Parish. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Caddo Parish’s.

Living in Blanchard, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Blanchard is a town of 3,538 people in Caddo Parish. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 3,538 in the 2020 census; median age 32.4
Household income Too few homes in Blanchard for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.8% Caddo Parish, August 2026; 4.4% a year before
Homes 77% lived in by their owners; 23% rented
  • 1,221households
  • 21%of adults have a degree
  • 12%below the poverty line
  • 22 mintypical commute
  • 4%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Shops (retail)15%
  • Building trades10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities9%
  • Government8%
  • Professional and business services6%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 56° and 35°; warmest in August, 94° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 56° 35° F M A M J J A 94° 72° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 56° and 35°; warmest in August, 94° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 56° 35° F M A M J J A 94° 72° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mooringsport North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Caddo Parish

  1. Willis-knighton Health SystemsGeneral hospital4,669FTE
  2. Caddo Parish SchoolsSchool district3,887FTE
  3. Ochsner LSU Health ShreveportGeneral hospital2,090FTE
  4. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,972
  5. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,714
  6. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportUniversity or college1,202
  7. Christus Shreveport-bossier Health SGeneral hospital989FTE
  8. 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 across the county; Blanchard has none of its own. 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. Heat wavesRelatively high
  3. LightningRelatively high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. HailRelatively moderate
  6. Cold wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blanchard’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 Caddo Parish.