Gueydan, Louisiana.
Typical home $119,582 (+7.4% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$153 (+32%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,196 +7%
- $111,385$119,582 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,146 -9%
- $131,728$119,582 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.
- Gueydan$628
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gueydan, LA rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Gueydan is a town of 1,165 people in Vermilion Parish. Unemployment in Vermilion Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vermilion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gueydan is a small town in Vermilion Parish, in the flat, low country of southwest Louisiana. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes across the parish run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a lot of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming and related outdoor industries, and professional and business services. Across Vermilion Parish, the largest workplaces include Vermilion Parish Schools, Acadian Contractors and Abbeville General Hospital. The parish added jobs last year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Bayou Queue de Tortue is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of wetlands, and to Palmetto Island State Park, another protected area. The Zigler Art Museum, also a longer drive away, is a place to spend an indoor afternoon.
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- 565households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Vermilion Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion Parish had 12,968 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jennings weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion Parish
- Vermilion Parish SchoolsSchool district1,028FTE
- Acadian ContractorsPipeline, gas and oil, construction540
- Abbeville General HospitalGeneral hospital388FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services316
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Broussard BrothersTugboat services, harbor operation267
- Elder OutreachNursing homes150
- Diversified HealthcareNursing homes133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,699 people in all across the county; Gueydan 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gueydan’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 Vermilion Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Gueydan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gueydan$119,582
- 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.
- Gueydan6
Zip codes with a Gueydan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gueydan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.