Jeanerette, Louisiana.
Typical home $99,287 (+3.5% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$100 (+24%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,386 +4%
- $95,902$99,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,776 -19%
- $123,064$99,287 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.
- Jeanerette$521
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Jeanerette, LA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jeanerette, Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Jeanerette is a city of 4,813 people in Iberia Parish. Unemployment in Iberia Parish was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iberia 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jeanerette is a small city in Iberia Parish, in the sugarcane country of south Louisiana. Homes here cost well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes across Iberia Parish run below the national middle. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and a good many people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming and the restaurant and hotel trades. Across Iberia Parish, the largest workplaces include Iberia Parish Schools, the M.A. Patout Sugar Mill and First Solar's New Iberia plant. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Bayou Teche, a river, runs through this part of Louisiana, and Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away for paddling and time outdoors. Jungle Gardens, a botanical garden, and the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, a museum, are also a longer drive away. Winters are mild, summers are hot, there is little or no snow, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
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- 1,938households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17%work from home
What people in Iberia Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iberia Parish had 24,488 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 90° and lows near 73°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jeanerette Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iberia Parish
- Iberia Parish SchoolsSchool district1,307FTE
- First Solar New Iberia - NAT1, NATHWPhotovoltaic cells manufacturing835
- M.A. Patout Sugar MillSugarcane mills399
- Halliburton Energy ServicesDrilling site preparation at oil and gas fields on a contract basis358
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters342
- McIlhenny CompanySauces, tomato-based, canning295
- Quail ToolsOil field machinery and equipment rental or leasing267
- American Pollution ControlEnvironmental remediation services220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,490 people in all across the county; Jeanerette has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jeanerette’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 Iberia Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Jeanerette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jeanerette$99,287
- 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.
- Jeanerette18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jeanerette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jeanerette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.