Geismar, Louisiana.
Typical home $383,001 (+1.5% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$980 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,648 +1%
- $377,353$383,001 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,325 +21%
- $315,677$383,001 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.
- Geismar$2,010
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Geismar, LA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Geismar, Ascension Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Geismar on its own, so the figures here are Ascension Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $91,549 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Ascension Parish was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ascension Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Geismar sits in Ascension Parish, where most homes are lived in by their owners, more than in many parts of the country. Household incomes are higher than in much of Louisiana, and the population is somewhat younger than the country as a whole. Typical home values are also higher than in much of the state, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than across the nation.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing and retail shops are also common employers, along with the building trades. Unemployment has fallen over the past year, though jobs eased slightly in the most recent year. Most people commute by car, and working from home is less common here than in many other places.
Things to do. Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' is an amusement park, a short drive away. Tiger Stadium, one of the best known stadiums in the region, and the Baton Rouge Zoo are both a longer drive away. Winters are mild, but summers are hot and the area gets far more rain across the year than most of the country.
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- 47,656households
- 36.6median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Ascension Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ascension Parish had 50,437 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ascension Parish
- Ascension Parish SchoolsSchool district3,207FTE
- BasfFormic acid manufacturing1,283
- Shell ChemicalEthylene made in petroleum refineries618
- Smith Tank & SteelBulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing616
- CF Industries NitrogenNitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing586
- optimalPetrochemical plant construction543
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters456
- RubiconPhosgene manufacturing420
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 131 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,283 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ascension Parish, 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 Ascension Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Geismar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Geismar$383,001
- 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 Geismar 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.
- Geismar34.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Geismar50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Geismar9
Zip codes with a Geismar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Geismar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.