Folsom, Louisiana.
Typical home $302,355 (+1.3% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$634 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,757 +1%
- $298,598$302,355 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,053 -1%
- $306,408$302,355 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.
- Folsom$1,587
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Folsom, LA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Folsom is a village of 769 people in St. Tammany Parish. Unemployment in St. Tammany Parish was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Tammany Parish work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Folsom is a very small village in St. Tammany Parish, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. Residents tend to be of middle age, and incomes in the village run below the parish's. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across St. Tammany Parish, some of the largest workplaces are St. Tammany Parish Schools, St. Tammany Parish Hospital and Slidell Memorial Hospital. Commutes are long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bogue Chitto State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Global Wildlife Center, a zoo, is also a short drive away. For a longer trip, Fontainebleau State Park is another protected area, and the Abita Mystery House is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in St. Tammany Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Tammany Parish had 97,985 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covington Nnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Tammany Parish
- St. Tammany Parish SchoolsSchool district5,175FTE
- St. Tammany Parish HospitalGeneral hospital2,285FTE
- Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company Gulf of MexicoOffshore crude petroleum production1,505
- Slidell Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,187FTE
- Textron SystemsNaval ship building804
- Ochsner Health Center - CovingtonOffices of physicians591
- Associated Wholesale GrocersGeneral line grocery merchant wholesalers475
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters474
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 170 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,028 people in all across the county; Folsom 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Folsom’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 St. Tammany Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Folsom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Folsom$302,355
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Folsom 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.
- Folsom30.05%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Folsom45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Folsom8
Zip codes with a Folsom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Folsom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.