Independence, Louisiana.
Typical home $191,839 (+4.3% in a year). Hammond, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$366 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,824 +4%
- $184,015$191,839 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,578 -5%
- $201,416$191,839 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.
- Independence$1,007
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Independence, LA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Independence, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Independence is a town of 1,635 people in Tangipahoa Parish. Unemployment in Tangipahoa Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Tangipahoa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Independence is a small town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, with a quiet, close-knit scale. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year. Homes here are typically priced well within reach for a Southeast Louisiana town, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Tangipahoa Parish, the largest workplaces include Tangipahoa Parish Schools, North Oaks Medical Center and Southeastern Louisiana University. Commutes are on the longer side, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Strawberry Stadium and the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts are both a short drive away, for football and for stage performances. The Natalbany River is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Tickfaw State Park is a protected area where the woods and waterways can be enjoyed, and the Global Wildlife Center, a zoo, is a longer drive.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Tangipahoa Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tangipahoa Parish had 47,216 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tangipahoa Parish
- Tangipahoa Parish SchoolsSchool district2,411FTE
- North Oaks Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- Southeastern Louisiana UniversityUniversity or college1,402
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage961
- Sanderson Farms Hammond ProcessingPoultry processing548
- Lallie Kemp Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital391FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Hammond, LA (GDC)384
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,298 people in all across the county; Independence has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Independence’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 Tangipahoa Parish and the Hammond, LA metro.
Independence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Independence$191,839
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Independence 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.
- Independence23.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Independence30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Independence7
Zip codes with a Independence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Independence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.