Gonzales, Louisiana.
Typical home $292,997 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,527 (+0.7%). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,753 +3%
- $283,245$292,997 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,797 +27%
- $231,200$292,997 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.
- Gonzales$1,538
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Gonzales, LA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Gonzales, LA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Gonzales runs $457/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $1,984 a month against $1,527 rent: a $1,538 mortgage payment, plus $133 property tax and $314 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Gonzales
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,984
- Renting$1,527
- Mortgage only$1,538
Property tax · $133/mo 0.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Ascension Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $314/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Gonzales, Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Gonzales is a city of 12,231 people in Ascension Parish. Half its households earn more than $75,451 a year and half less, against $91,549 across Ascension Parish; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Gonzales is a small city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the parish's as a whole, and the typical home value and rent sit alongside those figures. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a lot of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Gonzales are Gonzales Healthcare Center, Rouses Market and UPS. Parish-wide, there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment was a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Bayou Manchac, a river, is a short drive away and the nearest of the well-known places on the list. A longer drive brings you to Tiger Stadium, the best known of them, and to the USS Kidd, a museum ship. Lake Maurepas is also a longer drive away if you would like to be on the water.
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- 5,531households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donaldsonville Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gonzales
- Process service specialists, L.L.C. Of DelawareIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services385
- Gonzales Healthcare CenterNursing homes175
- Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterHomes for the aged with nursing care108
- Highmark ConstructionUtility line, construction105
- Rouses MarketGrocery stores93
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services91
- Ross Downing Buick GMC of GonzalesAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used72
- GonzalesMail and parcel delivery64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,415 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of GonzalesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gonzales’ 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 Ascension Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Gonzales home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gonzales$292,997
- 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 4 Gonzales listings, and the typical home goes pending in 42 days — 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.
- Gonzales28.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Gonzales42
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gonzales219
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gonzales50
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Gonzales$280,491
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Gonzales98.97%
Zip codes with a Gonzales address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gonzales — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.