Ethel, Louisiana.
Typical home $230,378 (+3.0% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+44%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,613 +3%
- $223,765$230,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,782 -1%
- $232,160$230,378 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.
- Ethel$1,209
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ethel, LA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ethel, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Ethel on its own, so the figures here are East Feliciana Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $73,085 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 86% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in East Feliciana Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in East Feliciana Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ethel is a small town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Across the parish, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are milder than in most of the country, with little or no snow, while summers are hotter than in most places and the year is wet, with heavy rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in government. Unemployment across the parish fell over the past year, and the number of jobs grew. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Comite Creek, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet outing by the water. For a garden visit, Afton Villa Gardens is a longer drive away, and the Audubon State Historic Site, a protected area, is also a longer drive.
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- 6,401households
- 44.0median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in East Feliciana Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. East Feliciana Parish had 5,235 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton Southeast weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in East Feliciana Parish
- East La State Mental Health SystemPsychiatric hospital1,327FTE
- East Feliciana Parish SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Grace Nursing HomeNursing homes116
- Atlas-SSI, Inc - SlaughterCrushing, pulverizing, and screening machinery, portable, manufacturing106
- PacTecRulers, plastics, manufacturing85
- WilliamsGas, natural, pipeline operation63
- Tri-parish CoopFarm supplies merchant wholesalers50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 420 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across East Feliciana 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 East Feliciana Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Ethel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ethel$230,378
- 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.
- Ethel10
Zip codes with a Ethel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ethel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.