Minden, Louisiana.
Typical home $131,248 (-4.6% in a year). Minden, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$49 (+8%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,330 -5%
- $137,579$131,248 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,807 -19%
- $161,055$131,248 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.
- Minden$689
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Minden, LA fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana
Minden is a city of 11,928 people in Webster Parish. Half its households earn more than $34,294 a year and half less, against $41,182 across Webster Parish; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Webster Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minden is a small city and the seat of Webster Parish in northwest Louisiana. Incomes here run below the parish's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical for the country. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than renters might expect elsewhere, so renting is common, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and government. Among the largest workplaces in Minden are Webster Parish Schools, Fibrebond, which makes prefabricated metal buildings, and Minden Medical Center. Most people have a moderate commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Germantown Colony and Museum is a museum a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Bistineau State Park and Lake Claiborne State Park are protected areas where visitors can spend time by the water, and both are a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 4,578households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster Parish had 11,314 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° 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 Minden weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Minden
- Webster Parish SchoolsSchool district670FTE
- FibrebondManufacturing prefabricated metal buildings, panels, and sections.627
- Minden Medical CenterGeneral hospital371FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters313
- Northwest Louisiana Technical Community CollegeTwo-year college175
- Nexion HealthNursing homes125
- Minden Community Care CentersNursing homes124
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers76
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,497 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windVery 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 Minden’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 Webster Parish and the Minden, LA metro.
Minden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minden$131,248
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Minden 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.
- Minden33.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Minden47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Minden11
Zip codes with a Minden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.