Gilbert, Louisiana.
Typical home $119,824 (-5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$100 (+19%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,333 -6%
- $127,157$119,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,436 -20%
- $149,260$119,824 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.
- Gilbert$629
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gilbert, LA fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gilbert, Franklin Parish, Louisiana
Gilbert is a village of 449 people in Franklin Parish. Unemployment in Franklin Parish was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gilbert is a village, one of the smallest kinds of community in Louisiana, in Franklin Parish. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and the parish's household incomes sit below the national picture as well. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month; rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents of Gilbert work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in the building trades. Across Franklin Parish, the largest workplaces include Franklin Parish Schools, Walmart and Franklin Medical Center. The number of jobs in the parish has held roughly steady from one year to the next, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Bruin State Park is a protected area, and the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge is another, each a longer drive away. Bayou Macon is a river, also a longer drive away, and suits those who like to be near water. Anyone curious about the past can visit Fort Beauregard, a fort a longer drive away.
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What people in Franklin Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin Parish had 4,657 jobs in 2025, 0.2% 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin Parish
- Franklin Parish SchoolsSchool district445FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters237
- Franklin Medical CenterGeneral hospital190FTE
- Central Management CompanyNursing homes146
- Winnsboro OpcoSkilled nursing facilities107
- Louisiana Pride CatfishFish manufacturing82
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers64
- Mary Anna Nursing HomeNursing homes57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 743 people in all across the county; Gilbert 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gilbert’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 Franklin Parish.
Gilbert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gilbert$119,824
- 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.
- Gilbert5
Zip codes with a Gilbert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gilbert — 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.