Melville, Louisiana.
Typical home $83,930 (-0.4% in a year). Opelousas, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $27 (-6%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $356 -0%
- $84,286$83,930 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $46,713 -36%
- $130,643$83,930 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.
- Melville$441
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Melville, LA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Melville, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Melville is a town of 759 people in St. Landry Parish. Unemployment in St. Landry Parish was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Landry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Melville is a very small town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, where a home costs far less than in much of the country. Winters are mild and almost never bring snow, with the coldest days in January still cool rather than harsh. Summers run hot, July is the warmest month, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across St. Landry Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Landry Parish Schools, Opelousas General Hospital and Walmart. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and incomes across the parish are modest.
Things to do. Swayze Lake, a lake, is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby outdoor spots. A longer drive brings you to the Red River and to Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of wild land. Audubon State Historic Site is also a longer drive away for those who enjoy history.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
What people in St. Landry Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Landry Parish had 23,882 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Roads Northeast weather station, 23 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Landry Parish
- St. Landry Parish SchoolsSchool district1,676FTE
- Opelousas General HospitalGeneral hospital902FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage884
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Boyd GamingCasino racetrack329
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Delek-Krotz Springs RefineryCrude oil refining219
- Acadian Medical CenterGeneral hospital210FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,937 people in all across the county; Melville 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Melville’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 St. Landry Parish and the Opelousas, LA metro.
Melville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Melville$83,930
- 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.
Zip codes with a Melville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Melville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.