Jena, Louisiana.
Typical home $156,387 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$265 (+48%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,776 +2%
- $152,611$156,387 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,396 -6%
- $166,783$156,387 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.
- Jena$821
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Jena, LA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jena, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Jena is a town of 4,155 people in LaSalle Parish. Unemployment in LaSalle Parish was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in LaSalle Parish work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jena is a small town and the seat of LaSalle Parish in central Louisiana. Its residents are younger than in much of the country, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, manufacturing, and shops. The largest workplaces in Jena include Walmart, Legacy Gardens at Jena, a skilled nursing facility, and Brookshire Grocery Company. Few people work from home, and unemployment across LaSalle Parish is low.
Things to do. Catahoula Lake, the best known of the nearby places, is a lake a longer drive away. Kisatchie National Forest is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and Troyville Earthworks is an archaeological site that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 1,463households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in LaSalle Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaSalle Parish had 4,744 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jena weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jena
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters210
- Legacy Gardens at JenaSkilled nursing facilities82
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 318 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jena’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 LaSalle Parish.
Jena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jena$156,387
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Jena listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Jena12.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jena29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Jena
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71342 | Jena | 7,735 | — | $152,220 |
| 71371 | Trout | 2,033 | — | $170,004 |