Marksville, Louisiana.
Typical home $133,523 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$59 (+9%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,286 +4%
- $128,237$133,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,327 -15%
- $156,850$133,523 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.
- Marksville$701
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marksville, LA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Marksville is a city of 5,065 people in Avoyelles Parish. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Avoyelles Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marksville is a small city in Avoyelles Parish, home to a younger population than most of the country. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the nation, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is modest compared with much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, the building trades and shops also common. The largest workplaces in Marksville include Avoyelles Parish Schools, Avoyelles Hospital and RightCare Health Services. The commute to work is longer than many people expect for a town this size, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site is an archaeological site in or beside town, and the Greenhouse Site is another close by. A short drive away are Fort DeRussy, a historic fort, and Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. For a longer outing, the Alexandria Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 1,868households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 35%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Avoyelles Parish had 9,785 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bunkie weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marksville
- Avoyelles Parish SchoolsSchool district566FTE
- Avoyelles HospitalGeneral hospital316FTE
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities66
- Hampton Inn & Suites MarksvilleHotels, seasonal, without casinos45
- Hospice Care of Avoyelles ParishHospice care services, in home40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 451 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marksville’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 Avoyelles Parish.
Marksville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marksville$133,523
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Marksville 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.
- Marksville17.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marksville44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marksville6
Zip codes with a Marksville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marksville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.