Mansfield, Louisiana.
Typical home $103,087 (+22.5% in a year). Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $5 (-1%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,908 +22%
- $84,179$103,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,328 -14%
- $119,415$103,087 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.
- Mansfield$541
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mansfield, LA rose 22.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mansfield, De Soto Parish, Louisiana
Mansfield is a city of 4,714 people in De Soto Parish. Half its households earn more than $33,844 a year and half less, against $48,578 across De Soto Parish; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in De Soto Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in De Soto 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mansfield is a small Louisiana city and the largest community in De Soto Parish. Residents are somewhat older than in many towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the parish's, and a good many households live below the poverty line. Homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades close behind. The biggest workplaces in town include DeSoto Parish Schools, Desoto Regional Health System and RightCare Health Services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the parish has about the same number of jobs as before.
Things to do. Mansfield State Historic Site, a museum, is in or beside town and is the nearest place to start. A longer drive away are Wallace Lake, a reservoir, and Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, both good for time outdoors. Chimp Haven, a zoo, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,687households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in De Soto Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. De Soto Parish had 8,406 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mansfield
- DeSoto Parish SchoolsSchool district724FTE
- Desoto Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital159FTE
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities80
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities75
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers60
- Ivey Lumber Company - MansfieldHome centers, building materials22
- MansfieldMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 257 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mansfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 De Soto Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
Mansfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mansfield$103,087
- 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.
- Mansfield10
Zip codes with a Mansfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mansfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.