Marion, Louisiana.
Typical home $122,223 (+9.0% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$315 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,115 +9%
- $112,107$122,223 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,282 +19%
- $102,941$122,223 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.
- Marion$642
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Marion, LA rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Union Parish, Louisiana
Marion is a town of 623 people in Union Parish. Unemployment in Union Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a very small town in Union Parish, in the north of Louisiana. Incomes across the parish run below the typical American household's, and homes here are priced modestly. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are long and hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services, and very few work from home. Across Union Parish, the largest workplaces include Case Farms, a poultry processor, Union Parish Schools, and Walmart. Unemployment in the parish is lower than a year ago, and the parish has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Big Creek, a river, are both a short drive away and suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Chemin-A-Haut State Park, a protected area, and to Lake D'Arbonne, a reservoir with a state park on its shores.
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- 2%work from home
What people in Union Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union Parish had 5,513 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe North weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union Parish
- Case FarmsPoultry processing1,593
- Union Parish SchoolsSchool district273FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Advancion - SterlingtonOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing174
- QSIJanitorial services126
- D'Arbonne Woods Charter SchoolSchool district118FTE
- Union General HospitalCritical access hospital114FTE
- Arbor Lake Skilled Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,565 people in all across the county; Marion has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marion’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 Union Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$122,223
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.