Harahan, Louisiana.
Typical home $305,596 (+4.4% in a year), asking rent $1,420 (-1.3%). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$516 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,847 +4%
- $292,750$305,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $42,391 -12%
- $347,988$305,596 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.
- Harahan$1,604
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Harahan, LA rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Harahan, LA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Harahan runs $624/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $728 in Mar 2026.
That is $2,044 a month against $1,420 rent: a $1,581 mortgage payment, plus $134 property tax and $329 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Harahan
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$2,044
- Renting$1,420
- Mortgage only$1,581
Property tax · $134/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $329/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 Harahan, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Harahan is a city of 9,116 people in Jefferson Parish. Half its households earn more than $79,516 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% 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 professional services.
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. Harahan is a small city in Jefferson Parish where most homes are lived in by their owners, and households earn more than across the parish as a whole. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical for many places. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month but still gentle by the standards of most of the country, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest month and afternoons that can be very hot. Rain falls throughout the year in generous amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Harahan are Plantation Management Company, which runs skilled nursing facilities, Durr Heavy Construction, a drainage project builder, and Elliott Group, which repairs and maintains industrial equipment. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known New Orleans destinations are a short drive away, including the National World War II Museum and Audubon Zoo. The New Orleans Museum of Art is also close, and Lake Pontchartrain is a longer drive for time by the water.
Report a mistake
- 4,278households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%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 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 65 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans Audubon weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harahan
- Plantation Management CompanySkilled nursing facilities172
- Durr Heavy ConstructionDrainage project construction95
- Elliott GroupIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 291 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively 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 Harahan’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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Harahan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harahan$305,596
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Harahan listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Harahan27.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Harahan45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Harahan7
Zip codes with a Harahan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harahan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.