Coushatta, Louisiana.
. Natchitoches, 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 Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana
Coushatta is a town of 1,752 people in Red River Parish. Unemployment in Red River Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Red River Parish work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coushatta is a small town and the parish seat of Red River Parish in northwest Louisiana. Residents are older on the whole than in most of the country, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes across the parish are modest. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment close behind, and manufacturing, farming and forestry also employ a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Coushatta are Red River Parish Schools, Christus Coushatta Health Care CTR and Almond Bros Lumber. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Close by, the Gahagan Mounds Site is an archaeological site a short drive away, and Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area is a protected area, also a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site, a protected area, and to Red River National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area.
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- 766households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Red River Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Red River Parish had 2,519 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coushatta
- Red River Parish SchoolsSchool district212FTE
- Christus Coushatta Health Care CTRCritical access hospital111FTE
- Almond Bros LumberSawmills63
- Specialty Rehabilitation HospitalRehabilitation hospital43FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 238 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coushatta’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 Red River Parish and the Natchitoches, LA metro.
Coushatta 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.
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coushatta11
Zip codes with a Coushatta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coushatta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.