Kinder, Louisiana.
Typical home $146,298 (-0.5% in a year). Jennings, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $761 -1%
- $147,060$146,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,122 -5%
- $154,420$146,298 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.
- Kinder$768
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kinder, LA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana
Kinder is a town of 2,170 people in Allen Parish. Unemployment in Allen Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allen Parish work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinder is a small town in Allen Parish, Louisiana, with a population on the younger side compared with many towns its size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the parish run below what is typical for the country. Homes here are priced modestly, and winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot and rainfall is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Almost no one works from home, so jobs are held on site. Across Allen Parish, the largest workplaces include Allen Parish Schools, Boise Cascade Co, and the federal prison system. Unemployment across the parish has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Whiskey Chitto Creek, a river, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time on the water. Farther afield, Zigler Art Museum offers a museum visit, and Sam Houston Jones State Park is a protected area for walking and being outdoors. Lake Charles, also a longer drive, is the larger destination in the region.
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- 900households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Allen Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen Parish had 7,351 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oberlin Fire Twr weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen Parish
- Allen Parish SchoolsSchool district615FTE
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing376
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice227
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters217
- Martco, L.L.C. (Oakdale)Reconstituted wood panels manufacturing209
- Oakdale Community HospitalGeneral hospital159FTE
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities83
- Allen Parish HospitalGeneral hospital81FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,290 people in all across the county; Kinder has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kinder’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 Allen Parish and the Jennings, LA metro.
Kinder home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinder$146,298
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Kinder 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.
- Kinder16.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kinder21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kinder6
Zip codes with a Kinder address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinder — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.