Norco, Louisiana.
Typical home $215,165 (+9.4% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$449 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,404 +9%
- $196,761$215,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,609 +7%
- $200,557$215,165 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.
- Norco$1,129
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Norco, LA rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norco, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Norco, in St. Charles Parish, had 2,984 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $71,220 a year and half less, against $80,897 across St. Charles Parish; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in St. Charles Parish was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Charles 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norco is a small community in St. Charles Parish, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the parish's, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued well under what a home costs in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in town are industrial: the Shell Oil Products US Norco Refinery, Turner Industries Group and BrandSafway, which does specialty trade contracting at the refinery. Commutes are moderate, very few people work from home, and St. Charles Parish has seen fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Fighting Wildcats Stadium is in or beside town, a place for local football. For a longer drive, Lake Pontchartrain is a large lake, and the New Orleans Museum of Art and the National World War II Museum are well-known museums in New Orleans. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a lot of rain.
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- 1,238households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in St. Charles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Charles Parish had 23,194 jobs in 2025, 11.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norco
- Shell Oil Products US - Norco RefineryRefinery gases made in petroleum refineries1,131
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const388
- BrandSafway LLC - Shell Refinery - NorcoSpecialty trade contractor329
- Shell Chemicals NorcoPetrochemical feedstocks made in petroleum refineries319
- W.R GraceMagnesium chloride manufacturing47
- TNT Crane & Rigging - Norco BranchCrane rental with operator36
- Turner Specialty ServicesAll other specialty trade contractors34
- Deep South Crane & RiggingCrane rental with operator28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,335 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Norco’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. Charles Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Norco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norco$215,165
- 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.
- Norco11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Norco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.