Mamou, Louisiana.
Typical home $91,227 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$77 (+19%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,421 +2%
- $89,806$91,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,347 -14%
- $105,574$91,227 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.
- Mamou$479
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mamou, LA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mamou, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
Mamou is a town of 2,936 people in Evangeline Parish. Unemployment in Evangeline Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Evangeline 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mamou is a small town in Evangeline Parish, in the prairie country of south Louisiana. Incomes across the parish run well below the national picture, and homes in town are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, so daily life tends to revolve around jobs and errands close by.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Evangeline Parish, the biggest employers are Evangeline Parish Schools, SLB, which makes industrial valves, and Mercy Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year earlier, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Chicot State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Chicot lies in the same direction. The Louisiana State Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain falls generously through the year.
Report a mistake
- 1,200households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Evangeline Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Evangeline Parish had 8,023 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eunice weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Evangeline Parish
- Evangeline Parish SchoolsSchool district776FTE
- SLBBall valves, industrial-type, manufacturing320
- Mercy Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital285FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters217
- Prairie Manor Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities126
- Cabot Corporation Ville PlatteCarbon black manufacturing108
- First Student107
- First StudentSchool bus services102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,707 people in all across the county; Mamou has two of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mamou’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 Evangeline Parish.
Mamou home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mamou$91,227
- 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.
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.
- Mamou9
Zip codes with a Mamou address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mamou — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.