Buras, Louisiana.
. New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$411 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Living in Buras, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Buras, in Plaquemines Parish, had 1,109 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Plaquemines Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Plaquemines Parish work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buras is a small community in Plaquemines Parish, on the low ground of the lower Mississippi delta. Very few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Across Plaquemines Parish, Plaquemines Parish Schools and Venture Global LNG are among the largest workplaces, along with Chevron Oronite Company LLC - Oak Point Plant. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip are old forts a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Mississippi River and to Delta National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for birds and other wildlife.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Plaquemines Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plaquemines Parish had 13,408 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 47°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 77°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buras weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plaquemines Parish
- Performance Contractors, Inc. - Venture Global LNG-Port SulphurConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex1,958
- Plng1,431
- Venture Global LNGPipeline terminal facilities, independently operated605
- Plaquemines Parish SchoolsSchool district583FTE
- Chevron Oronite Company LLC - Oak Point PlantOils, lubricating petroleum, made from refined petroleum388
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const342
- ES&HEnvironmental remediation services234
- Belle Chasse AcademySchool district189FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,116 people in all across the county; Buras has none 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buras’ 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 Plaquemines Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Buras home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buras9
Zip codes with a Buras address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buras — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.