Colfax, Louisiana.
Typical home $131,237 (+5.3% in a year). Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$142 (+26%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,633 +5%
- $124,604$131,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $11,713 -8%
- $142,950$131,237 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.
- Colfax$689
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Colfax, LA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colfax, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Colfax is a town of 1,428 people in Grant Parish. Unemployment in Grant Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colfax is a small town and the seat of Grant Parish in central Louisiana, small enough that people tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot. The town gets a good deal of rain through the year, more than many parts of the country. Homes are valued well below what is typical nationally, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, other services and shops. Across Grant Parish, the largest workplaces include Grant Parish Schools, Hunt Forest Products in Pollock, and Jena Choctaw Pines Casino. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year, and a typical commute is a little shorter than the drive to a distant city.
Things to do. The Cane River runs in or beside town, and Lake Iatt, a reservoir, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kisatchie National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Alexandria Museum of Art.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Grant Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant Parish had 3,411 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boyce Wnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant Parish
- Grant Parish SchoolsSchool district378FTE
- Hunt Forest Products, LLC - PollockSoftwood veneer or plywood manufacturing337
- Jena Choctaw Pines CasinoCasinos269
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice263
- Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation of PollockSkilled nursing facilities85
- Colfax Nursing and RehabNursing homes70
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 761 people in all across the county; Colfax has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colfax’s 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 Grant Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Colfax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colfax$131,237
- 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.
- Colfax15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Colfax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colfax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.