Gretna, Louisiana.
Typical home $235,014 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,567 (+2.2%). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$397 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,542 +1%
- $233,472$235,014 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,245 -10%
- $262,259$235,014 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.
- Gretna$1,234
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gretna, LA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Gretna, LA rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Gretna runs $21/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $418 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,587 a month against $1,567 rent: a $1,234 mortgage payment, plus $102 property tax and $252 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Gretna
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$1,587
- Renting$1,567
- Mortgage only$1,234
Property tax · $102/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $252/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 Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Gretna is a city of 17,814 people in Jefferson Parish. Half its households earn more than $43,110 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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. Gretna is a small city across the river from New Orleans, in Jefferson Parish. Its residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and incomes run well below the parish's, with more people living in poverty than is typical. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, so renting is common, and a typical rent is high next to the typical home value. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Gretna are the McCormick Gretna Plant, which makes spices and spice mixes, Jefferson Parish, which runs the local transit system, and Rouses Market. The typical commute is about as long as in many American towns, and fewer people work from home than work away from it. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Several places are in or beside town, including the National World War II Museum, the Aquarium of the Americas and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. A short drive away are Audubon Zoo and the Caesars Superdome, a stadium. For a longer outing, Lake Pontchartrain is a longer drive away.
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- 7,544households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Parish had 186,101 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 45°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 66 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Terrytown 3S weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gretna
- McCormick Gretna PlantSpices and spice mix manufacturing220
- TransdevLocal transit system163
- Rouses MarketGrocery stores134
- Entergy Algiers GretnaDistribution of electric power120
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores118
- GretnaMail and parcel delivery83
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers70
- Jefferson SprinklerFire sprinkler system installation70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,157 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of GretnaRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gretna’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Gretna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gretna$235,014
- 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 Gretna listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 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.
- Gretna25.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Gretna31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gretna174
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gretna34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Gretna$221,892
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Gretna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gretna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Gretna
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70056 | Gretna | 40,348 | $1,498 | $245,421 |
| 70053 | Gretna | 16,621 | $1,622 | $209,574 |