Calhoun, Louisiana.
Typical home $247,093 (+0.5% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,304 +1%
- $245,789$247,093 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,718 +5%
- $236,375$247,093 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.
- Calhoun$1,297
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 78 years.
Typical home values in Calhoun, LA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Calhoun, in Ouachita Parish, had 670 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ouachita Parish was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ouachita 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calhoun is a small community in Ouachita Parish, in north Louisiana. Homes here are valued above what most people would guess for a place this size, and household incomes across the parish are modest. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, while summers are hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Across Ouachita Parish, the largest workplaces include Ouachita Parish Schools, St. Francis Medical Center and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Watson Brake is an archaeological site, a longer drive away. D'Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and Joe Aillet Stadium is another longer drive. For time on the water, Lake D'Arbonne is a reservoir, a longer drive from town.
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What people in Ouachita Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ouachita Parish had 69,886 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calhoun Rsch Station weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ouachita Parish
- Ouachita Parish SchoolsSchool district2,556FTE
- St. Francis Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,324FTE
- City of Monroe School DistrictSchool district1,280FTE
- University of Louisiana at MonroeUniversity or college933
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard680
- Ochsner LSU Health MonroeGeneral hospital675FTE
- Glenwood Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital553FTE
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard402
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 111 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,134 people in all across the county; Calhoun has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calhoun’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 Ouachita Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Calhoun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calhoun$247,093
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Calhoun listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Calhoun31.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Calhoun29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Calhoun10
Zip codes with a Calhoun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calhoun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.