Fort Necessity, Louisiana.
Typical home $167,244 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$371 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,058 +5%
- $159,186$167,244 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,474 +15%
- $145,770$167,244 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.
- Fort Necessity$878
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Fort Necessity, LA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Necessity, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Fort Necessity on its own, so the figures here are Catahoula Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,275 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Catahoula Parish was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Catahoula Parish work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Necessity is a small community in Catahoula Parish, in central Louisiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls heavily across the whole year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in government. Across the parish, unemployment has eased over the past year, and there are a little more jobs than before, while fewer adults hold a university degree than in most of the country.
Things to do. The Boeuf River, a short drive away, is a natural place to spend time on the water. Boeuf Wildlife Management Area, also a short drive away, is a protected area of open land where you can see wildlife. Troyville Earthworks, an archaeological site a longer drive away, has earthen mounds that people shaped long before the town existed.
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- 3,201households
- 39.8median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Catahoula Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Catahoula Parish had 2,288 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winnsboro Sse weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Catahoula Parish
- Catahoula Parish SchoolsSchool district145FTE
- Concordia Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 64 people in all. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Catahoula Parish, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Catahoula Parish.
Fort Necessity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Necessity$167,244
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fort Necessity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Necessity — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.