Gramercy, Louisiana.
Typical home $203,309 (+6.1% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$475 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,639 +6%
- $191,669$203,309 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,031 +10%
- $185,278$203,309 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.
- Gramercy$1,067
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Gramercy, LA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gramercy, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Gramercy is a town of 2,932 people in St. James Parish. Half its households earn more than $67,813 a year and half less, against $65,531 across St. James Parish; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in St. James Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gramercy is a small town in St. James Parish, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River corridor. Household incomes run a little above the parish's, and a typical home costs well under what many American towns ask. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across St. James Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Associated Terminals, St. James Parish Schools and Nucor Steel Louisiana. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and commutes are of a moderate length.
Things to do. The Whitney Plantation Historic District, a museum, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the better-known places to visit. New River, also a short drive away, offers time on the water. For a day out, Lac des Allemands, a lake, is a longer drive.
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- 993households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. James Parish had 7,791 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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 July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reserve weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. James Parish
- Associated TerminalsStevedoring services687
- St. James Parish SchoolsSchool district470FTE
- Nucor Steel LouisianaDirect reduction of iron ore265
- Louisiana Sugar RefiningSugarcane refining210
- St. James Parish HospitalCritical access hospital206FTE
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const181
- Zen-Noh GrainGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain174
- Beacon Behavioral Hospital- LutcherPsychiatric hospital171FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,098 people in all across the county; Gramercy 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gramercy’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 St. James Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Gramercy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gramercy$203,309
- 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.
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.
- Gramercy13
Zip codes with a Gramercy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gramercy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.