Effie, Louisiana.
Typical home $183,684 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$260 (+37%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,974 +5%
- $175,710$183,684 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,412 -2%
- $188,096$183,684 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.
- Effie$964
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Effie, LA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Effie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Effie on its own, so the figures here are Avoyelles Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $39,325 a year and half less; 28% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Avoyelles Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Avoyelles Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Effie is a small town in Avoyelles Parish, in central Louisiana. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, more so than across the county as a whole, and the typical home value sits below the county's. Figures for the parish are shown alongside this text, since the Census does not count Effie on its own. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades, with shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also providing jobs. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the parish had slightly fewer jobs in the most recent year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so most people commute out to their jobs.
Things to do. The Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away and is a good place to learn about the region's ancient past. Fort DeRussy, a historic fort, is also a short drive away and suits a relaxed outing for those interested in local history.
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- 14,441households
- 39.0median age
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Avoyelles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Avoyelles Parish had 9,785 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alexandria Esler Regional Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avoyelles Parish
- Avoyelles Parish SchoolsSchool district566FTE
- Avoyelles HospitalGeneral hospital316FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- USI Industrial ServicesChemical plant construction275
- Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. MansuraBall valves, industrial-type, manufacturing142
- CommcareSkilled nursing facilities139
- Venza CareNursing homes133
- Leading Home Care - MarksvilleHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,966 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Avoyelles Parish, 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 Avoyelles Parish.
Effie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Effie$183,684
- 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.
- Effie6
Zip codes with a Effie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Effie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.