Kenner, Louisiana.
Typical home $259,864 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,595 (-2.8%). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$275 (+25%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,177 +2%
- $254,687$259,864 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $69,835 -21%
- $329,699$259,864 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.
- Kenner$1,364
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kenner, LA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kenner, LA fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kenner runs $160/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $762 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,755 a month against $1,595 rent: a $1,364 mortgage payment, plus $113 property tax and $278 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kenner
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,755
- Renting$1,595
- Mortgage only$1,364
Property tax · $113/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $278/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Kenner is a city of 66,448 people in Jefferson Parish. Half its households earn more than $64,020 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Kenner was 3.5% in August 2026, and Jefferson Parish had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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. Kenner is a city in Jefferson Parish, home to people of a middle age, with incomes a little below the parish's and more renters than owners being the exception rather than the rule: most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Kenner are Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner, Boyd Gaming and Pellerin Milnor. Jobs across the parish have grown slightly over the past year, and most people travel a moderate distance to work.
Things to do. Lafreniere Park is a park in or beside town, handy for a walk close to home. A short drive away are the New Orleans Museum of Art and Audubon Zoo, and the Caesars Superdome, a stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 25,557households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Parish had 186,101 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans International Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenner
- Ochsner Medical Center - KennerGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,081
- Boyd GamingCasino504
- AccuTransLoading and unloading services at ports and harbors405
- Pellerin MilnorOther industrial machine manufacturing400
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- BLD ServicesSewer main, pipe and connection, construction371
- Msycx0amz MSY - AmazonOther airport operations370
- GAT Airline Ground Support, Inc. MSYOther airport operations279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,853 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenner’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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Kenner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenner$259,864
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Kenner listings, and the typical home goes pending in 55 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kenner27.74%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Kenner55
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kenner254
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kenner49
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Kenner$232,314
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Kenner97.16%
Zip codes with a Kenner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Kenner
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70065 | Kenner | 48,936 | $1,639 | $273,567 |
| 70062 | Kenner | 17,771 | $1,425 | $229,301 |