Heflin, Louisiana.
Typical home $120,585 (-1.0% in a year). Minden, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$62 (+11%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,259 -1%
- $121,844$120,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $26,110 -18%
- $146,695$120,585 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.
- Heflin$633
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Heflin, LA fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heflin, Webster Parish, Louisiana
Heflin is a village of 213 people in Webster Parish. Unemployment in Webster Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Webster 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heflin is a very small village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Webster Parish sit below those in much of the country, so living costs are on the lighter side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels. Across Webster Parish, the largest workplaces include Webster Parish Schools, Fibrebond and Minden Medical Center. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has added jobs. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Lake Bistineau State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the closest of the outdoor places nearby. Farther afield, Kepler Lake is a reservoir, and the Meadows Museum of Art is a museum, both a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rainfall is generous through the year.
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- 31 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Webster Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster Parish had 11,314 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minden weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster Parish
- Webster Parish SchoolsSchool district670FTE
- FibrebondManufacturing prefabricated metal buildings, panels, and sections.627
- Minden Medical CenterGeneral hospital371FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters313
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters200
- CSP Innovations LouisianaMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing198
- Northwest Louisiana Technical Community CollegeTwo-year college175
- Madden ContractingAsphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials156
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,520 people in all across the county; Heflin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heflin’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 Webster Parish and the Minden, LA metro.
Heflin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heflin$120,585
- 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.
Zip codes with a Heflin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heflin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.