Oscar, Louisiana.
Typical home $309,859 (+2.6% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,743 +3%
- $302,116$309,859 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,217 +18%
- $261,642$309,859 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.
- Oscar$1,626
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Oscar, LA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oscar, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Oscar on its own, so the figures here are Pointe Coupee Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,961 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Pointe Coupee Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pointe Coupee Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oscar is a town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, the population is middle-aged on the whole, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and snow is rare, though rain is heavy through the year.
Work. Across Pointe Coupee Parish, jobs are most common in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though the county has had fewer jobs over the past year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so most adults commute to a workplace.
Things to do. For a longer drive, Tiger Stadium is a stadium and USS Kidd is a museum. The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is a protected area.
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- 8,335households
- 43.9median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Pointe Coupee Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pointe Coupee Parish had 5,229 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Roads Northeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pointe Coupee Parish
- Pointe Coupee Parish SchoolsSchool district351FTE
- Alma PlantationCane farming, sugar, field production279
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters225
- Pointe Coupee General HospitalCritical access hospital179FTE
- Pelican Power - Big Cajun 2Power generation, fossil fuel, electric119
- First Student113
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction104
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,280 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pointe Coupee Parish, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Pointe Coupee Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Oscar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oscar$309,859
- 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.
- Oscar10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Oscar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oscar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.