Lockport, Louisiana.
Typical home $162,931 (+5.5% in a year). Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$148 (+21%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,504 +6%
- $154,427$162,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,178 -16%
- $195,109$162,931 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.
- Lockport$855
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lockport, LA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lockport, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Lockport is a town of 2,490 people in Lafourche Parish. Unemployment in Lafourche Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafourche 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lockport is a small town in Lafourche Parish, home to a small community where most people live close to the water and the bayou country that surrounds it. Homes here are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Lafourche Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Lafourche Parish Schools, Thibodaux Regional Health System and Bollinger Shipyards Lockport. Commutes tend to be long, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lac des Allemands and Lake Salvador are both lakes, and Bayou Segnette State Park is a protected area, each a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to the Whitney Plantation Historic District, a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,003households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Lafourche Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafourche Parish had 35,052 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 71 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thibodaux Southeast weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafourche Parish
- Lafourche Parish SchoolsSchool district1,602FTE
- Thibodaux Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital1,121FTE
- Nicholls State UniversityUniversity or college660
- Bollinger Shipyards LockportShipyard600
- Cajun IronworkersMarine cargo handling services490
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters308
- John Deere ThibodauxHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing301
- Ochsner BayouCritical access hospital259FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,282 people in all across the county; Lockport has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lockport’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 Lafourche Parish and the Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
Lockport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lockport$162,931
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lockport 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.
- Lockport19.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lockport26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lockport5
Zip codes with a Lockport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lockport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.