Plaucheville, Louisiana.
. Opelousas, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$411 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Living in Plaucheville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Plaucheville is a village of 221 people in Avoyelles Parish. Unemployment in Avoyelles Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Avoyelles Parish work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plaucheville is a very small village in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Household incomes in the parish run below the typical American level, and a smaller share of people here live in poverty than you might expect from that. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some people work from home, though most travel to a job. Across Avoyelles Parish, the largest workplaces include Avoyelles Parish Schools, Avoyelles Hospital and Walmart, and the number of jobs in the parish has slipped slightly from a year earlier.
Things to do. Bayou Huffpower is a short drive away and is the closest water to the village. A longer drive brings you to the Red River, and to Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site, an archaeological site that is part of the area's long history. Chicot State Park is also a longer drive, a protected area with woods and a lake.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Avoyelles Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Avoyelles Parish had 9,785 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bunkie weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avoyelles Parish
- Avoyelles Parish SchoolsSchool district566FTE
- Avoyelles HospitalGeneral hospital316FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- USI Industrial ServicesChemical plant construction275
- Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. MansuraBall valves, industrial-type, manufacturing142
- CommcareSkilled nursing facilities139
- Venza CareNursing homes133
- Leading Home Care - MarksvilleHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,966 people in all across the county; Plaucheville 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plaucheville’s census tracts, 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 Avoyelles Parish and the Opelousas, LA metro.
Plaucheville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Plaucheville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plaucheville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.