Olla, Louisiana.
Typical home $115,370 (-3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$82 (+16%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,998 -3%
- $119,368$115,370 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.
- Olla$606
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Olla, LA fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olla, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Olla is a town of 1,295 people in LaSalle Parish. Unemployment in LaSalle Parish was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in LaSalle Parish work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olla is a small town in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, and one of the smaller places in the parish. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain is plentiful through the year. Typical home values are modest, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, while few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, manufacturing, and shops. Across LaSalle Parish, some of the largest workplaces are LaSalle Parish Schools, Walmart and Hardtner Medical Center. Jobs in the parish grew over the past year, and unemployment there is slightly lower than a year ago. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. Castor Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Kisatchie National Forest, a protected area, and to Catahoula Lake, a lake popular for time on the water. The Dugdemona River is also a longer drive away for those who like to explore the area's rivers.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in LaSalle Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaSalle Parish had 4,744 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jena weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in LaSalle Parish
- LaSalle Parish SchoolsSchool district344FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters210
- Hardtner Medical CenterCritical access hospital185FTE
- Lasalle General HospitalGeneral hospital176FTE
- LaSalle Lumber CompanyBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts165
- LaSalle Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities86
- Legacy Gardens at JenaSkilled nursing facilities82
- Hunt Forest Products, LLC - OllaLumber, hardwood dimension, made from logs or bolts32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,162 people in all across the county; Olla 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Olla’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 LaSalle Parish.
Olla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olla$115,370
- 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.
- Olla5
Zip codes with a Olla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.