Crowley, Louisiana.
Typical home $120,332 (+3.6% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$101 (+19%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,225 +4%
- $116,106$120,332 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,649 -19%
- $147,981$120,332 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.
- Crowley$632
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Crowley, LA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crowley, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Crowley is a city of 11,710 people in Acadia Parish. Half its households earn more than $28,642 a year and half less, against $45,562 across Acadia Parish; 48% of its people live below the poverty line. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% are rented. Unemployment in Acadia Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crowley is a small city in Acadia Parish, in the rice country of south Louisiana. Its residents are somewhat older than in many places, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for a town of this size. Incomes run well below the parish's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are modestly priced. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with rain through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Crowley include Acadia Parish Schools, Supreme Rice and OLG Acadia General Hospital. Unemployment in the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has gained jobs over the past year. A typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bayou Wikoff, a waterway in or beside town, is the nearest place to get out by the water. A longer drive away are Palmetto Island State Park, a protected area, and the Zigler Art Museum. The Strand Theatre is also a longer drive away.
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- 5,230households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 48%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Acadia Parish had 14,889 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crowley Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crowley
- Acadia Parish SchoolsSchool district1,174FTE
- Supreme RiceBran and other residues of milling rice346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Phoenix Forge GroupPipe fabricating made from purchased metal pipe195
- JohnPacWeaving and finishing of broadwoven fabrics107
- Beacon Mobility Corp.School bus services105
- Encore Healthcare and RehabilitationNursing homes100
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,341 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of CrowleyRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crowley’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 Acadia Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Crowley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crowley$120,332
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Crowley listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Crowley26.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crowley51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crowley11
Zip codes with a Crowley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crowley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.