Erath, Louisiana.
Typical home $136,867 (+0.1% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$210 (+41%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $177 +0%
- $136,691$136,867 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,177 -4%
- $143,044$136,867 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.
- Erath$718
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Erath, LA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Erath, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Erath is a town of 2,028 people in Vermilion Parish. Half its households earn more than $47,568 a year and half less, against $55,707 across Vermilion Parish; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Vermilion Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Erath is a small town in Vermilion Parish, in south Louisiana. Household incomes run below the parish's, and homes cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Vermilion Parish, the biggest workplaces include Vermilion Parish Schools, Abbeville General Hospital and Acadian Contractors. Jobs across the parish have grown over the past year, and unemployment there has eased. Commutes are of middling length, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Peigneur is a lake a short drive away, and Palmetto Island State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Jungle Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away too, and the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 799households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion Parish had 12,968 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Iberia Acadiana Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion Parish
- Vermilion Parish SchoolsSchool district1,028FTE
- Acadian ContractorsPipeline, gas and oil, construction540
- Abbeville General HospitalGeneral hospital388FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services316
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Broussard BrothersTugboat services, harbor operation267
- Elder OutreachNursing homes150
- Diversified HealthcareNursing homes133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,699 people in all across the county; Erath has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Erath’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 Vermilion Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Erath home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Erath$136,867
- 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.
- Erath15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Erath address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Erath — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.