Oberlin, Louisiana.
Typical home $92,821 (-11.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $62 (-11%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $11,612 -11%
- $104,433$92,821 since Sep 2025
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.
- Oberlin$487
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Oberlin, LA fell 11.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana
Oberlin is a town of 1,402 people in Allen Parish. Half its households earn more than $31,738 a year and half less, against $46,469 across Allen Parish; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Allen Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allen Parish work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oberlin is a small town and the seat of Allen Parish, in south-central Louisiana. Incomes here run well below the parish's as a whole, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home. Across Allen Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Allen Parish Schools, Boise Cascade Co and Oakdale Community Hospital.
Things to do. Several rivers and bayous lie a longer drive away, including Whiskey Chitto Creek and Bayou des Cannes, for anyone who likes time by the water. The West Bay Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. For an indoor outing, the Zigler Art Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 719households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Allen Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen Parish had 7,351 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oberlin Fire Twr weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen Parish
- Allen Parish SchoolsSchool district615FTE
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing376
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice227
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters217
- Martco, L.L.C. (Oakdale)Reconstituted wood panels manufacturing209
- Oakdale Community HospitalGeneral hospital159FTE
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities83
- Allen Parish HospitalGeneral hospital81FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,290 people in all across the county; Oberlin has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oberlin’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 Allen Parish.
Oberlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oberlin$92,821
- 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 Oberlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oberlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.