Eunice, Louisiana.
Typical home $113,903 (+0.1% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$149 (+33%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $125 +0%
- $113,778$113,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,184 -4%
- $119,087$113,903 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.
- Eunice$598
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Eunice, LA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eunice, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Eunice is a city of 9,422 people in Acadia Parish. Half its households earn more than $35,436 a year and half less, against $45,562 across Acadia Parish; 33% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Acadia Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eunice is a small city in Acadia Parish, in the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country. Incomes here run below the parish's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than most of the country would expect. Homes are split evenly between owners and renters, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. 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, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Eunice are Walmart, OAK Lane Wellness & Rehabilitation Center and Brookshire Grocery Company. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home. Across the parish, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Chicot State Park is a protected area with a lake, a longer drive away, and Lake Chicot itself sits in the same direction. The Louisiana State Arboretum is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away, with woodland to walk through. Bayou des Cannes, a river, is another longer drive away for anyone who likes to be near the water.
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- 4,129households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Acadia Parish had 14,889 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eunice weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eunice
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Oak Lane Wellness & Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities90
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers85
- AmeriGlobe, LLC EuniceBags, textile, made from purchased woven or knitted materials69
- Leading Home Care - EuniceHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical47
- RF ServicesLand clearing37
- L&L SandblastingPainting contractors30
- EuniceMail and parcel delivery29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 765 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of EuniceRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of EuniceRelatively 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 Eunice’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 Acadia Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Eunice home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eunice$113,903
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Eunice 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.
- Eunice21.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eunice41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eunice7
Zip codes with a Eunice address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eunice — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.