Hammond, Louisiana.
Typical home $221,162 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,279 (+4.0%). Hammond, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$448 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $511 +0%
- $220,651$221,162 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $990 -0%
- $222,152$221,162 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.
- Hammond$1,161
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hammond, LA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hammond, LA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hammond runs $195/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $403 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,474 a month against $1,279 rent: a $1,161 mortgage payment, plus $76 property tax and $237 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hammond
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$1,474
- Renting$1,279
- Mortgage only$1,161
Property tax · $76/mo 0.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Tangipahoa Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $237/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 Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Hammond is a city of 19,584 people in Tangipahoa Parish. Half its households earn more than $48,166 a year and half less, against $56,760 across Tangipahoa Parish; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Tangipahoa Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Hammond is a small city in Tangipahoa Parish with a young population, a median age well below what you find in many American towns. Incomes run below the parish's, and more people live below the poverty line than in most places, while more homes are rented than lived in by their owners, so renting is common. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and nights that stay above freezing on a typical day, and summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops, with professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in Hammond are North Oaks Medical Center, Walmart and Medline Industries. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts hosts live performances, and the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum is a local museum. Strawberry Stadium is the town's stadium. For time outdoors, Tickfaw State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 7,927households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tangipahoa Parish had 47,216 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hammond East weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hammond
- North Oaks Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- OptionsRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational218
- Medline IndustriesWholesale distribution of medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies210
- TargetDiscount department stores148
- Utility Metering SolutionsWater meter installation148
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter140
- Stoa GroupCommercial building construction general contractors126
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,594 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hammond’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 Tangipahoa Parish and the Hammond, LA metro.
Hammond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hammond$221,162
- 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 Hammond listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hammond25.10%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hammond34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hammond206
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hammond43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hammond$230,563
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hammond96.96%
Zip codes with a Hammond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hammond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hammond
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70403 | Hammond | 30,173 | $1,378 | $226,939 |
| 70401 | Hammond | 21,221 | $1,149 | $211,682 |