Holden, Louisiana.
Typical home $236,391 (+4.0% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,012 +4%
- $227,378$236,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,884 +6%
- $223,507$236,391 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.
- Holden$1,241
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Holden, LA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holden, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Holden on its own, so the figures here are Livingston Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,122 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holden is a small town in Livingston Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. Most homes here are lived in by the people who own them, and the parish's households have incomes in the range that many families in the state know well. Its residents have settled into the rhythms of a community where neighbors still know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment in the parish has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown a little. Few residents work from home, so most people travel out each day to their jobs.
Things to do. The Amite River, one of the best known waterways nearby, is a longer drive away. Tickfaw State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, and the Baton Rouge Zoo is a longer drive away for a day outing.
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- 53,596households
- 36.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Livingston Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston Parish had 31,287 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Amite weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston Parish
- Livingston Parish SchoolsSchool district3,650FTE
- Epic Piping - Frost LocationPipe fabricating made from purchased metal pipe408
- Ferrara Fire ApparatusFire truck manufacturing371
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- The Martin-Brower Company286
- pipe and steel industrial fabricatorsTube made from purchased iron or steel200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,641 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- 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 across Livingston Parish, 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 Livingston Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Holden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holden$236,391
- 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.
- Holden13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Holden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.