Hackberry, Louisiana.
Typical home $232,996 (+8.4% in a year). Lake Charles, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+40%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,046 +8%
- $214,949$232,996 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,883 -3%
- $239,878$232,996 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.
- Hackberry$1,223
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hackberry, LA rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hackberry, Cameron Parish, Louisiana
Hackberry, in Cameron Parish, had 926 people in the 2020 census. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Cameron Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 14.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cameron Parish 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hackberry is a small community in Cameron Parish where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher rate of ownership than in most American towns. Household incomes in the parish run a little above the national middle, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights in January, and summers are hot, peaking in August. Snow is almost unknown, and rain is plentiful across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. A few of them work from home. Among the largest workplaces in Hackberry are Apache-Cameron LNG, Performance Contractors, Inc. at Cameron LNG-Hackberry, and the Cameron Parish Ambulance District. Unemployment in the parish is lower than it was a year earlier, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water and wildlife are the draw here. The Calcasieu River, Calcasieu Lake and Sabine National Wildlife Refuge are all a short drive away, offering room for fishing, boating and watching birds. Sabine Lake is a longer drive away, as is Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, which suits a day trip.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Cameron Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cameron Parish had 4,601 jobs in 2025, 14.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 77°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hackberry Ssw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hackberry
- Apache- Cameron LNGScaffold erecting and dismantling104
- Performance Contractors, Inc. - Cameron LNG-HackberryConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex55
- Cameron Parish Ambulance DistrictEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 184 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
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hackberry’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 Cameron Parish and the Lake Charles, LA metro.
Hackberry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hackberry$232,996
- 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.
- Hackberry12
Zip codes with a Hackberry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hackberry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.