Leesville, Louisiana.
Typical home $168,290 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,166 (+6.3%). Fort Polk South, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$286 (+48%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,802 +4%
- $162,488$168,290 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,610 +3%
- $163,680$168,290 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.
- Leesville$883
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Leesville, LA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Leesville, LA rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Leesville runs $48/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $137 in Mar 2025.
That is $1,118 a month against $1,166 rent: a $864 mortgage payment, plus $74 property tax and $180 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Leesville
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$1,118
- Renting$1,166
- Mortgage only$864
Property tax · $74/mo 0.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Vernon Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $180/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 Leesville, Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Leesville is a city of 5,649 people in Vernon Parish. Half its households earn more than $37,500 a year and half less, against $57,270 across Vernon Parish; 34% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Vernon Parish was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Leesville is a small city and the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana. Its residents are younger than in much of the country, and most households rent rather than own their homes. Incomes run well below the parish's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people have a short drive to work.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Leesville include Vernon Parish Schools, Byrd Regional Hospital and Walmart. Across Vernon Parish there are somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is a little lower than it was then.
Things to do. Anacoco Lake and Vernon Lake are both reservoirs a short drive away, and the Fort Johnson-Vernon Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also close. Farther out, Toledo Bend Reservoir is a longer drive away, as is Hodges Gardens State Park, a botanical garden. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 2,490households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon Parish had 12,525 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leesville weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leesville
- Vernon Parish SchoolsSchool district1,122FTE
- Byrd Regional HospitalGeneral hospital360FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter108
- Market BasketGrocery stores76
- Pat Williams ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors56
- Leesville Rehabilitation HospitalRehabilitation hospital38FTE
- LeesvilleMail and parcel delivery28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 606 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of LeesvilleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leesville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Vernon Parish and the Fort Polk South, LA metro.
Leesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leesville$168,290
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Leesville listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Leesville16.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leesville111
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leesville19
Zip codes with a Leesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.