Hineston, Louisiana.
Typical home $163,467 (+5.5% in a year). Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$197 (+30%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,515 +5%
- $154,951$163,467 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,478 -4%
- $170,945$163,467 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.
- Hineston$858
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hineston, LA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hineston, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Hineston on its own, so the figures here are Rapides Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,967 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Rapides Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rapides Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hineston sits in Rapides Parish, where winters are milder than much of the country and summers are hot. Rain is heavy through the year, including melted snow, and the area is wetter than most of the country. Across Rapides Parish, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a sizable share of people live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents of Rapides Parish work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Fewer people are looking for work than a year earlier, and jobs grew slightly last year. Many residents drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Alexandria Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and Alexandria Zoological Park is a zoo also a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Alexander State Forest is a protected area, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 48,954households
- 37.9median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Rapides Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rapides Parish had 56,850 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Polk Fullerton Lndg Strip weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rapides Parish
- Rapides Parish SchoolsSchool district2,866FTE
- Centuri GroupConstruction2,190
- St. Frances Cabrini HospitalGeneral hospital1,305FTE
- Rapides Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,084FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs997
- P&G Manufacturing CoLaundry soap, chips, and powder manufacturing757
- Plastipak- PinevilleBottles, plastics, manufacturing365
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,676 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rapides Parish, 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 Rapides Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Hineston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hineston$163,467
- 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 Hineston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hineston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.