Duson, Louisiana.
Typical home $213,967 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $838 . Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+55%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,455 +4%
- $206,513$213,967 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,279 +7%
- $200,688$213,967 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.
- Duson$1,123
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Duson, LA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Duson, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Duson is a town of 1,326 people in Lafayette Parish. Unemployment in Lafayette Parish was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette Parish work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duson is a small town in Lafayette Parish, in south Louisiana's Acadiana country. Homes here are valued below what the typical American home is worth, and the parish's household incomes are somewhat above the town's usual price range for housing. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Lafayette Parish, the largest workplaces include Lafayette Parish Schools, Lafayette General Medical Center and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The parish has added jobs over the past year, and a typical commute is a moderate drive, while few people work from home.
Things to do. For a game day, Cajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Peigneur, a lake, and to the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, a museum. Palmetto Island State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lafayette Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette Parish had 139,145 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette Parish
- Lafayette Parish SchoolsSchool district3,241FTE
- Lafayette General Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,322FTE
- University of Louisiana at LafayetteUniversity or college2,198
- Our Lady of Lourdes RMCGeneral hospital1,790FTE
- WHC a Surerus Murphy CompanyConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline1,483
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage817
- University Hospital & ClinicsGeneral hospital762FTE
- LemoineCommercial building construction general contractors742
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 237 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,118 people in all across the county; Duson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of DusonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Duson’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 Lafayette Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Duson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duson$213,967
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Duson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Duson32.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Duson38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Duson10
Zip codes with a Duson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.