Florien, Louisiana.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$411 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Living in Florien, Sabine Parish, Louisiana
Florien is a village of 553 people in Sabine Parish. Unemployment in Sabine Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sabine Parish work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Florien is a small village in Sabine Parish, in the pine woods of western Louisiana. It is a very small community where people are likely to know one another. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls through the year in good measure.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Sabine Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Sabine Parish Schools, Boise Cascade Co and Weyerhaeuser. Few people here work from home, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is modest.
Things to do. Hodges Gardens State Park, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Toledo Bend Reservoir, a large lake well suited to a day by the water. Fort Jesup, a historic fort site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Sabine Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sabine Parish had 5,453 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hodges Gardens weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sabine Parish
- Sabine Parish SchoolsSchool district661FTE
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing419
- WeyerhaeuserEngineered wood products288
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters234
- Sabine Medical CenterGeneral hospital148FTE
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities114
- Many Healthcare NorthNursing homes106
- Eagle Railcar Services - Zwolle, LouisianaLocomotive and rail car repair83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,673 people in all across the county; Florien has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Florien’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 Sabine Parish.
Florien home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Florien listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Florien17.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Florien21
Zip codes with a Florien address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Florien — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.