Hessmer, Louisiana.
Typical home $148,678 (+3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$175 (+29%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,394 +4%
- $143,284$148,678 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,262 -6%
- $158,939$148,678 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.
- Hessmer$780
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hessmer, LA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hessmer, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Hessmer is a village of 772 people in Avoyelles Parish. Unemployment in Avoyelles Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Avoyelles 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hessmer is a village in Avoyelles Parish, small enough that most people know one another. Incomes in the parish run below those in much of the country, and a typical home here costs less than in many parts of the United States. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Avoyelles Parish, the largest workplaces include Avoyelles Parish Schools, Avoyelles Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the parish has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site, an archaeological site, and Fort DeRussy, a fort, are both a short drive away. Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a short drive away, and Chicot State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What people in Avoyelles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Avoyelles Parish had 9,785 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bunkie weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avoyelles Parish
- Avoyelles Parish SchoolsSchool district566FTE
- Avoyelles HospitalGeneral hospital316FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- USI Industrial ServicesChemical plant construction275
- Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. MansuraBall valves, industrial-type, manufacturing142
- CommcareSkilled nursing facilities139
- Venza CareNursing homes133
- Leading Home Care - MarksvilleHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,966 people in all across the county; Hessmer 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hessmer’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 Avoyelles Parish.
Hessmer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hessmer$148,678
- 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.
- Hessmer6
Zip codes with a Hessmer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hessmer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.