Paulina, Louisiana.
Typical home $314,175 (+3.5% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+81%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,520 +3%
- $303,655$314,175 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,341 +7%
- $292,834$314,175 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.
- Paulina$1,649
- 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 Paulina, LA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paulina, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Paulina, in St. James Parish, had 1,778 people in the 2020 census. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in St. James Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. James Parish work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paulina is a small community in St. James Parish where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and poverty is rare. Typical home values sit well within reach of the Louisiana river-parish norm, and the population skews a little younger than in many older-homeowner towns. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across St. James Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel Louisiana, Louisiana Sugar Refining and St. James Parish Schools. Unemployment in the parish is lower than it was a year earlier, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Whitney Plantation Historic District, a museum, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the places worth a visit. Lac des Allemands, a lake, is a longer drive away, as is Tickfaw State Park, a protected area with river and woodland to explore.
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- 30%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in St. James Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. James Parish had 7,791 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reserve weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. James Parish
- Associated TerminalsStevedoring services687
- St. James Parish SchoolsSchool district470FTE
- Nucor Steel LouisianaDirect reduction of iron ore265
- Louisiana Sugar RefiningSugarcane refining210
- St. James Parish HospitalCritical access hospital206FTE
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const181
- Zen-Noh GrainGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain174
- Beacon Behavioral Hospital- LutcherPsychiatric hospital171FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,098 people in all across the county; Paulina 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paulina’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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. James Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Paulina home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paulina$314,175
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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 Paulina address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paulina — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.