Cecilia, Louisiana.
Typical home $126,298 (-2.3% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $80 (-11%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $2,919 -2%
- $129,218$126,298 since Sep 2025
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.
- Cecilia$663
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cecilia, LA fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cecilia, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Cecilia, in St. Martin Parish, had 1,807 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in St. Martin Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Martin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cecilia is a small community in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, where homes are priced below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are mild, with cool days in January, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls heavily through the year, more than in many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across St. Martin Parish, some of the largest workplaces are St. Martin Parish Schools, LAD Services of Louisiana, which builds barges, and St Martin Hospital. Unemployment in the parish is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Louisiana Swamps, a short drive away, is the closest of the nearby outdoor places. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, a protected area for time outdoors, and to the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, a museum. The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area a longer drive away.
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What people in St. Martin Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Martin Parish had 12,315 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette Regional Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Martin Parish
- St. Martin Parish SchoolsSchool district888FTE
- LAD Services of LouisianaBarge building400
- Zealous Energy and Enviromental SericesOil and gas field services on a contract basis308
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters291
- Lasuca FarmCane farming, sugar, field production200
- St Martin HospitalCritical access hospital165FTE
- Burner Fire ControlBuilding, erecting, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field rigs and derricks on a contract basis134
- Louisiana Sugarcane CoopSugar, cane, manufacturing110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,824 people in all across the county; Cecilia has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cecilia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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. Martin Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Cecilia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cecilia$126,298
- 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.
Zip codes with a Cecilia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cecilia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.