Lecompte, Louisiana.
Typical home $151,975 (+6.7% in a year). Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$317 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,534 +7%
- $142,440$151,975 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,110 +16%
- $130,865$151,975 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.
- Lecompte$798
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Lecompte, LA rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lecompte, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Lecompte is a town of 845 people in Rapides Parish. Unemployment in Rapides Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rapides 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lecompte is a very small town in Rapides Parish, with fewer residents than most places that go by the name of town. Homes here are priced well below what many Americans pay, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Rapides Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Rapides Parish Schools, Rapides Regional Medical Center and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment across the parish has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Alexander State Forest and Indian Creek Recreation Area are both protected areas a short drive away, suited to walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the Alexandria Museum of Art, and Alexandria Zoological Park is another longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Rapides Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rapides Parish had 56,850 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lsu Dean Lee Rsch Station weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rapides Parish
- Rapides Parish SchoolsSchool district2,866FTE
- Centuri GroupConstruction2,190
- St. Frances Cabrini HospitalGeneral hospital1,305FTE
- Rapides Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,084FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs997
- P&G Manufacturing CoLaundry soap, chips, and powder manufacturing757
- Plastipak- PinevilleBottles, plastics, manufacturing365
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,676 people in all across the county; Lecompte has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lecompte’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 Rapides Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Lecompte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lecompte$151,975
- 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.
- Lecompte8
Zip codes with a Lecompte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lecompte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.