Iota, Louisiana.
Typical home $189,323 (+7.3% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$399 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,898 +7%
- $176,425$189,323 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,604 +9%
- $173,719$189,323 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.
- Iota$994
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Iota, LA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Iota, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Iota is a town of 1,304 people in Acadia Parish. Unemployment in Acadia Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Acadia 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Iota is a small town in Acadia Parish, in the rice and farming country of south Louisiana. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the parish run below the typical American household's. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Across Acadia Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Acadia Parish Schools, Sunland Construction and Acadia General Hospital. Unemployment across the parish has eased over the past year, and the parish has added jobs.
Things to do. Several bayous lie a short drive away, including Bayou des Cannes and Bayou Nezpique, for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Zigler Art Museum, a museum, and to the Strand Theatre, a theatre. Cypress Lake, also a longer drive away, is another spot for time by the water.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 13%work from home
What people in Acadia Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Acadia Parish had 14,889 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crowley Northeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Acadia Parish
- Acadia Parish SchoolsSchool district1,174FTE
- Sunland ConstructionPipeline, gas and oil, construction883
- TanMar RentalsOil field machinery and equipment rental or leasing522
- Supreme RiceBran and other residues of milling rice346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Acadia General HospitalGeneral hospital237FTE
- Louisiana State University-EuniceTwo-year college204
- Phoenix Forge GroupPipe fabricating made from purchased metal pipe195
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,250 people in all across the county; Iota 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Iota’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 Acadia Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Iota home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iota$189,323
- 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.
- Iota8
Zip codes with a Iota address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iota — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.