Ida, Louisiana.
Typical home $123,952 (+4.3% in a year). Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$223 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,134 +4%
- $118,818$123,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6 -0%
- $123,958$123,952 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.
- Ida$651
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ida, LA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ida, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Ida is a village of 217 people in Caddo Parish. Unemployment in Caddo Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caddo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ida is a village in the northwest corner of Louisiana, in Caddo Parish, and it is a very small place where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many Americans pay, and across Caddo Parish household incomes run a little under the national picture. Winters are cool and short, with snow a rarity, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents of Ida work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Caddo Parish, the biggest employers include Willis-Knighton Health Systems, Caddo Parish Schools and Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year ago, and the parish has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are on the long side, so many people travel some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. The Sulphur River, a river a short drive away, is the nearest water for fishing or a quiet walk along its banks. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to Caddo Lake, a large reservoir known for its cypress-lined waters, and to Caddo Lake State Park, a protected area on its shores. Conway Cemetery State Park is another protected area a longer drive away, for those who like local history.
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- 39 mintypical commute
What people in Caddo Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caddo Parish had 110,419 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caddo Parish
- Willis-knighton Health SystemsGeneral hospital4,669FTE
- Caddo Parish SchoolsSchool district3,887FTE
- Ochsner LSU Health ShreveportGeneral hospital2,090FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,972
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,714
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportUniversity or college1,202
- Christus Shreveport-bossier Health SGeneral hospital989FTE
- Willis-Knighton South and the Center for Women's HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals888
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,370 people in all across the county; Ida has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ida’s census tracts, 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 Caddo Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
Ida home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ida$123,952
- 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 Ida address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ida — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.