Parks, Louisiana.
Typical home $137,080 (+14.0% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $6 (-1%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $16,865 +14%
- $120,216$137,080 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.
- Parks$720
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Parks, LA rose 14.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parks, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Parks is a village of 640 people in St. Martin Parish. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in St. Martin Parish was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Martin Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parks is a very small village in St. Martin Parish, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for the country as a whole, and household incomes in the parish run below the national picture, though fewer people here live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with cool days that rarely turn harsh, while August brings hot days. Rain is plentiful across the year, and snow is rarely part of it.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across St. Martin Parish, some of the largest workplaces are St. Martin Parish Schools, LAD Services of Louisiana, a barge builder, and Walmart. The parish has held steady on jobs, with unemployment slightly lower than a year ago. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site is a museum, and Louisiana Swamps offers a chance to see the waterways nearby. A longer drive brings you to Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, a protected area, and the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. Both suit a day outdoors.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in St. Martin Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Martin Parish had 12,315 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 67 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Martin Parish
- St. Martin Parish SchoolsSchool district888FTE
- LAD Services of LouisianaBarge building400
- Zealous Energy and Enviromental SericesOil and gas field services on a contract basis308
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters291
- Lasuca FarmCane farming, sugar, field production200
- St Martin HospitalCritical access hospital165FTE
- Burner Fire ControlBuilding, erecting, repairing, and dismantling oil and gas field rigs and derricks on a contract basis134
- Louisiana Sugarcane CoopSugar, cane, manufacturing110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,824 people in all across the county; Parks 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parks’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 St. Martin Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Parks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parks$137,080
- 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 Parks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.