Mer Rouge, Louisiana.
Typical home $95,595 (+1.5% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$89 (+22%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,371 +1%
- $94,225$95,595 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,207 -18%
- $116,802$95,595 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.
- Mer Rouge$502
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mer Rouge, LA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mer Rouge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Mer Rouge is a village of 491 people in Morehouse Parish. Unemployment in Morehouse Parish was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morehouse Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mer Rouge is a small village in Morehouse Parish, in the northeast corner of Louisiana, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here cost far less than the national typical, and household incomes across the parish run below the national figure as well. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild with little or no snow, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Morehouse Parish, the largest workplaces include Morehouse Parish Schools, Walmart and Morehouse General Hospital. Unemployment across the parish has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Chemin-A-Haut State Park and Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas a short drive away, good for time outdoors. The Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center is also a short drive away, and so is Venable Mound, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, Poverty Point is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
What people in Morehouse Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morehouse Parish had 6,261 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bastrop weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morehouse Parish
- Morehouse Parish SchoolsSchool district424FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters274
- Morehouse General HospitalGeneral hospital203FTE
- DG Foods LaChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked160
- RimcorRefractory brick contractors139
- Lagniappe HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities105
- Cypress Grove Behavioral HealthPsychiatric hospital102FTE
- Cherry Ridge Skilled Nursing FacilitySkilled nursing facilities98
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,214 people in all across the county; Mer Rouge has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mer Rouge’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 Morehouse Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Mer Rouge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mer Rouge$95,595
- 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.
- Mer Rouge5
Zip codes with a Mer Rouge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mer Rouge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mer Rouge
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71263 | Oak Grove | 6,410 | — | $134,586 |
| 71261 | Mer Rouge | 1,171 | — | $92,372 |