Downsville, Louisiana.
Typical home $203,692 (+1.1% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,280 +1%
- $201,412$203,692 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,895 +10%
- $185,797$203,692 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.
- Downsville$1,069
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Downsville, LA rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Downsville, Union Parish, Louisiana
Downsville is a village of 120 people in Union Parish. Unemployment in Union Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Downsville is a village in Union Parish, Louisiana, and one of the smallest places a person could choose to live, so daily life tends to be quiet and neighborly. Homes here are valued above what is typical for the parish's household incomes, which sit on the modest side. Winters are cool and short, summers run hot, and snow is rare. Rain falls throughout the year in good measure.
Work. Residents of Downsville tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Union Parish, the largest workplaces include Case Farms, a poultry processor, along with Union Parish Schools and Walmart. The parish has added a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. Getting to work usually means a drive of moderate length.
Things to do. The closest outdoor draw is Lake D’Arbonne, a reservoir a short drive away, where people go for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake D'Arbonne State Park, a protected area on the same lake, and to D'Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area suited to quiet walks and watching wildlife. For something older, Watson Brake is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Union Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union Parish had 5,513 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union Parish
- Case FarmsPoultry processing1,593
- Union Parish SchoolsSchool district273FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Advancion - SterlingtonOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing174
- QSIJanitorial services126
- D'Arbonne Woods Charter SchoolSchool district118FTE
- Union General HospitalCritical access hospital114FTE
- Arbor Lake Skilled Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,565 people in all across the county; Downsville 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Downsville’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 Union Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Downsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Downsville$203,692
- 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.
- Downsville6
Zip codes with a Downsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Downsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.