Pineville, Louisiana.
Typical home $198,394 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $948 . Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$420 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,727 +5%
- $189,668$198,394 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,180 +10%
- $180,215$198,394 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.
- Pineville$1,041
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Pineville, LA rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Owning the typical home in Pineville runs $397/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $471 in Feb 2025.
That is $1,345 a month against $948 rent: a $1,041 mortgage payment, plus $91 property tax and $212 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pineville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,345
- Renting$948
- Mortgage only$1,041
Property tax · $91/mo 0.55% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Rapides Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $212/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Pineville is a city of 14,384 people in Rapides Parish. Half its households earn more than $49,774 a year and half less, against $54,967 across Rapides Parish; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Rapides Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Pineville is a small city across the Red River from Alexandria, with a younger population than many places where homeowners look to settle. Incomes run below the parish's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Pineville are P&G Manufacturing Co, Walmart and Louisiana Christian University. The commute is short, and unemployment across Rapides Parish has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site is a protected area in or beside town, and the Alexandria Museum of Art is a short drive away. The Alexandria Zoological Park is also a short drive away, and Kisatchie National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,879households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rapides Parish had 56,850 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alexandria weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pineville
- P&G Manufacturing CoLaundry soap, chips, and powder manufacturing757
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters360
- Louisiana Christian UniversityUniversity or college232
- Leading Home Care - PinevilleCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities209
- Bilfinger Industrial ServicesIndustrial building construction, general contractors171
- Bet EngineeringTransformer station and substation, electric power, construction155
- Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturingPlate steel fabrication149
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,020 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pineville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rapides Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Pineville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pineville$198,394
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pineville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 17 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Pineville25.00%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pineville17
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pineville124
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pineville30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pineville$215,953
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pineville97.30%
Zip codes with a Pineville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pineville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.