Homer, Louisiana.
Typical home $96,657 (-26.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $655 (-56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $35,594 -27%
- $132,251$96,657 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $129,127 -57%
- $225,783$96,657 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.
- Homer$507
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Homer, LA fell 26.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Homer is a town of 2,747 people in Claiborne Parish. Unemployment in Claiborne Parish was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Claiborne Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Homer is the town at the center of Claiborne Parish in north Louisiana, a small place where people are likely to know one another. Household incomes in the parish run low, and homes in town are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home. Winters are mild and almost snowless, while summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and government also employing local people. The largest workplaces in Homer are Claiborne Parish Schools, Homer Memorial Hospital and Brookshire's grocery store. Unemployment in the parish has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though there are fewer jobs across the parish than there were the year before.
Things to do. The Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away are Lake Claiborne, a reservoir, and Lake Claiborne State Park beside it, a protected area for time outdoors. Joe Aillet Stadium is a longer drive away.
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- 1,062households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Claiborne Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Claiborne Parish had 2,873 jobs in 2025, 4.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homer 1N weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Homer
- Claiborne Parish SchoolsSchool district289FTE
- Homer Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital206FTE
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 64 people in all. 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 stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Homer’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 Claiborne Parish.
Homer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Homer$96,657
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Homer listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Homer18.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Homer23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Homer5
Zip codes with a Homer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Homer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.