French Settlement, Louisiana.
Typical home $226,062 (+6.7% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$531 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,161 +7%
- $211,901$226,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,197 +10%
- $204,865$226,062 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.
- French Settlement$1,187
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in French Settlement, LA rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in French Settlement, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
French Settlement is a village of 1,073 people in Livingston Parish. Half its households earn more than $72,396 a year and half less, against $80,122 across Livingston Parish. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. French Settlement is a small village in Livingston Parish, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the parish's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults than in many places. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers turn hot by August, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with the building trades, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Livingston Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Livingston Parish Schools, Epic Piping and Ferrara Fire Apparatus. Joblessness in the parish is slightly lower than a year ago, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Bayou Manchac, a river, is a short drive away and is the closest place on the list for time on the water. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to Tickfaw State Park, a protected area, and to the USS Kidd, a museum. The Baton Rouge Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 435households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Livingston Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston Parish had 31,287 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 75°. About 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carville Southwest weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston Parish
- Livingston Parish SchoolsSchool district3,650FTE
- Epic Piping - Frost LocationPipe fabricating made from purchased metal pipe408
- Ferrara Fire ApparatusFire truck manufacturing371
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- The Martin-Brower Company286
- pipe and steel industrial fabricatorsTube made from purchased iron or steel200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,641 people in all across the county; French Settlement has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in French Settlement’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Livingston Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
French Settlement home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- French Settlement$226,062
- 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.
- French Settlement5
Zip codes with a French Settlement address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls French Settlement — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.