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Gloster, Louisiana.

. Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.

What it costs per month · Gloster $1,123/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$411 (+58%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Louisiana $1,123 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Louisiana$1,123
  • United States$1,922

Living in Gloster, De Soto Parish, Louisiana

Gloster, in De Soto Parish, had 53 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in De Soto Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in De Soto Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 53 in the 2020 census; median age 6.6
Household income Too few homes in Gloster for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.8% De Soto Parish, August 2026; 4.8% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Gloster for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gloster is a community in De Soto Parish in northwestern Louisiana, and it is very small, with the feel of a place where people know one another. It sits within the parish's rural and small-town landscape, far from the larger cities of the state.

Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Many of these jobs are close to home, so people often know their neighbours through their work.

Things to do. Chimp Haven, a zoo, is a short drive away and is one of the best known attractions nearby. CenturyLink Center, a stadium, and Wallace Lake, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away.

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What people in De Soto Parish work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Building trades8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%
  • Farming, forestry and mining8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. De Soto Parish had 8,406 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 57° and 36°; warmest in July, 93° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 57° 36° F M A M J J 93° 72° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 57° and 36°; warmest in July, 93° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 57° 36° F M A M J J 93° 72° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in De Soto Parish

  1. International Paper Mansfield MillPaper mills798
  2. DeSoto Parish SchoolsSchool district724FTE
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters170
  4. Desoto Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital159FTE
  5. IP Mansfield148
  6. DT MidstreamGas, natural, pipeline operation93
  7. RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities80
  8. RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities75

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,541 people in all across the county; Gloster 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

  1. Strong windRelatively high
  2. Heat wavesRelatively moderate
  3. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  4. HailRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively moderate
  6. Winter weatherRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gloster’s census tracts, 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 De Soto Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.

Gloster home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Gloster address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gloster — 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.