Bourg, Louisiana.
Typical home $219,859 (+1.5% in a year). Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$458 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,200 +1%
- $216,660$219,859 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,080 +12%
- $196,779$219,859 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.
- Bourg$1,154
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Bourg, LA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bourg, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Bourg, in Lafourche Parish, had 2,375 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $69,094 a year and half less, against $63,135 across Lafourche Parish; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Lafourche Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafourche 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bourg is a small community in Lafourche Parish, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the parish's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than a figure that size might suggest for the region. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a lot of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Lafourche Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Lafourche Parish Schools, Thibodaux Regional Health System and Nicholls State University. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lac des Allemands is a lake a longer drive away, as is Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Lake Salvador, another lake, is also a longer drive from town. Anyone interested in local history can visit the Edward Douglass White House, a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 922households
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lafourche Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafourche Parish had 35,052 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 74°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houma weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafourche Parish
- Lafourche Parish SchoolsSchool district1,602FTE
- Thibodaux Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital1,121FTE
- Nicholls State UniversityUniversity or college660
- Bollinger Shipyards LockportShipyard600
- Cajun IronworkersMarine cargo handling services490
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters308
- John Deere ThibodauxHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing301
- Ochsner BayouCritical access hospital259FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,282 people in all across the county; Bourg has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BourgRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BourgRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bourg’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 Lafourche Parish and the Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
Bourg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bourg$219,859
- 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.
- Bourg13
Zip codes with a Bourg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bourg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.