Boutte, Louisiana.
Typical home $204,336 (+0.5% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$260 (+32%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,009 +0%
- $203,327$204,336 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,169 -11%
- $228,505$204,336 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.
- Boutte$1,073
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Boutte, LA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boutte, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Boutte, in St. Charles Parish, had 3,054 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in St. Charles Parish was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Charles Parish 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boutte is a small community in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, with a population that is modest in size. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, though a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services also employing a good number. Nobody here works from home. Across St. Charles Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Charles Parish Schools, the Shell Norco Refinery and Entergy. The parish has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Most outings from Boutte mean a longer drive toward New Orleans. Audubon Zoo is a zoo, the National World War II Museum is a museum, and Lake Pontchartrain is a large lake, each a longer drive away. Lac des Allemands, a lake, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 11%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in St. Charles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Charles Parish had 23,194 jobs in 2025, 11.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans International Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Charles Parish
- St. Charles Parish SchoolsSchool district1,417FTE
- Shell Oil Products US - Norco RefineryRefinery gases made in petroleum refineries1,131
- The Dow Chemical Company, a subsidary of Union CarbideAccelerators manufacturing1,028
- EntergyDistribution of electric power703
- Bayer CropSciencePesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing670
- Valero St. Charles RefineryRefinery gases made in petroleum refineries549
- St. Charles Parish HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals502
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const388
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,656 people in all across the county; Boutte has two 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boutte’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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. Charles Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Boutte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boutte$204,336
- 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.
- Boutte7
Zip codes with a Boutte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boutte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.