Marrero, Louisiana.
Typical home $220,644 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $1,678 (-5.0%). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,991 +3%
- $213,653$220,644 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,455 -4%
- $230,099$220,644 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.
- Marrero$1,158
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marrero, LA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Marrero, LA fell 5.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Marrero runs $187/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $386 in Oct 2024.
That is $1,490 a month against $1,678 rent: a $1,158 mortgage payment, plus $96 property tax and $236 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Marrero
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,490
- Renting$1,678
- Mortgage only$1,158
Property tax · $96/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $236/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Marrero, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Marrero, in Jefferson Parish, had 32,382 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $41,402 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Marrero is a community in Jefferson Parish, across the river from New Orleans. Household incomes here run well below the parish's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. The winters are mild and the summers hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Marrero are Commcare, a nursing home operator, Marrero Healthcare Center, which provides nursing care for older residents, and Atmos Energy, the natural gas distributor. Jobs across the parish have grown slightly over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little.
Things to do. Audubon Zoo and Bayou Segnette State Park are both in or beside town, the first a zoo and the second a protected area of wetland. A short drive away are the National World War II Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake, is a longer drive.
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- 12,668households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Parish had 186,101 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 65 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans Audubon weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marrero
- CommcareNursing homes130
- Marrero Healthcare CenterHomes for the elderly with nursing care91
- HOTWORX FranchisingPhysical fitness studios68
- MarreroMail and parcel delivery53
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers47
- Atmos EnergyNatural gas distribution37
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 454 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of MarreroRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of MarreroRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marrero’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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Marrero home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marrero$220,644
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Marrero listings, and the typical home goes pending in 43 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Marrero27.52%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Marrero43
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marrero229
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marrero44
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Marrero$195,291
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Marrero96.66%
Zip codes with a Marrero address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marrero — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.