Kaplan, Louisiana.
Typical home $132,074 (+8.5% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$192 (+38%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,394 +9%
- $121,680$132,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,795 -2%
- $134,869$132,074 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.
- Kaplan$693
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kaplan, LA rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kaplan, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Kaplan is a city of 4,352 people in Vermilion Parish. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Vermilion Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vermilion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kaplan is a small city in Vermilion Parish, in the flat farm country of south Louisiana. More homes here are lived in by their owners than not, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and the daily commute is a short one. Winters are mild, with the coldest days of the year in January still cool rather than harsh, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, with August the warmest month, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then farming, forestry and mining, and professional and business services. Across Vermilion Parish, the largest workplaces include Vermilion Parish Schools, Abbeville General Hospital and Acadian Contractors. The parish has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little compared with a year earlier. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Palmetto Island State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Vermilion River is a river also a longer drive away. For a quieter visit, Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site is a museum, again a longer drive away. Each of these takes some planning, so they suit a day out more than an evening.
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- 1,652households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Vermilion Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion Parish had 12,968 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leland Bowman Lock weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion Parish
- Vermilion Parish SchoolsSchool district1,028FTE
- Acadian ContractorsPipeline, gas and oil, construction540
- Abbeville General HospitalGeneral hospital388FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services316
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Broussard BrothersTugboat services, harbor operation267
- Elder OutreachNursing homes150
- Diversified HealthcareNursing homes133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,699 people in all across the county; Kaplan has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kaplan’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 Vermilion Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Kaplan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kaplan$132,074
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Kaplan 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.
- Kaplan24.34%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kaplan21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kaplan5
Zip codes with a Kaplan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kaplan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.