Montegut, Louisiana.
Typical home $106,035 (-3.1% in a year). Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$26 (+5%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,356 -3%
- $109,391$106,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $35,841 -25%
- $141,876$106,035 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.
- Montegut$557
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Montegut, LA fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Montegut, in Terrebonne Parish, had 1,465 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $57,076 a year and half less, against $64,836 across Terrebonne Parish; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Terrebonne Parish was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montegut is a small community in Terrebonne Parish, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run below the parish's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most places would see. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work in the building trades, manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Terrebonne Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Danos, which does contract oil well logging, Terrebonne Parish Schools, and Terrebonne General Health System. Commutes are long for most people, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the parish has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away. Farther out, Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, and Lake Salvador offers open water, each a longer drive from town. The Edward Douglass White House, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 450households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Terrebonne Parish had 47,828 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 76°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galliano weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Terrebonne Parish
- DanosOil well logging on a contract basis2,557
- Terrebonne Parish SchoolsSchool district1,847FTE
- Terrebonne General Health SystemGeneral hospital1,235FTE
- Performance Energy ServicesBarge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing1,187
- Supreme Services & Specialty CompanyServicing oil and gas wells on a contract basis578
- Chet Morrison ContractorsOil and gas field services on a contract basis565
- Southern Regional MedicalGeneral hospital423FTE
- Bollinger Houma ShipyardsShipyard384
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,657 people in all across the county; Montegut 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Montegut’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 Terrebonne Parish and the Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
Montegut home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montegut$106,035
- 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.
- Montegut13
Zip codes with a Montegut address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montegut — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.