Kelly, Louisiana.
Typical home $140,069 (+16.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$28 (+4%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $19,303 +16%
- $120,766$140,069 since Sep 2025
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.
- Kelly$735
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kelly, LA rose 16.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kelly, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Kelly on its own, so the figures here are Caldwell Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $47,028 a year and half less; 30% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Caldwell Parish was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caldwell Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kelly is a small community in Caldwell Parish in north-central Louisiana, where most people live in homes they own. Residents are middle-aged on average, and many have lived in the area for a long time. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades, manufacturing and local shops. Joblessness in the parish has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped a little. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and few people work from home, so most adults commute to their jobs.
Things to do. Watson Brake, the best known of the nearby archaeological sites, lies a longer drive away. Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers quiet spaces for walking and watching wildlife. The Dugdemona River, a longer drive away, is another good choice for a day outdoors.
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- 3,716households
- 40.4median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Caldwell Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caldwell Parish had 2,233 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbia Lock weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caldwell Parish
- Caldwell Parish SchoolsSchool district202FTE
- Citizens Medical CenterGeneral hospital114FTE
- Haven Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities100
- Caldwell Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital63FTE
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 158 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Caldwell Parish, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Caldwell Parish.
Kelly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kelly$140,069
- 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.
- Kelly4
Zip codes with a Kelly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kelly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.