Pollock, Louisiana.
Typical home $193,609 (+5.5% in a year). Alexandria, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$388 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,080 +5%
- $183,529$193,609 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,587 +13%
- $172,022$193,609 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.
- Pollock$1,016
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Pollock, LA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pollock, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Pollock is a town of 394 people in Grant Parish. Unemployment in Grant Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pollock is a very small town in Grant Parish, Louisiana, where homes are priced modestly compared with much of the country. Winters are mild, with cool days and nights that stay above freezing on most days, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain and the occasional melted snow add up to a wet year overall.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, other services and retail. Across Grant Parish, the largest workplaces include Grant Parish Schools, Hunt Forest Products in Pollock, and the Jena Choctaw Pines Casino. Most people have a short drive to work, very few work from home, and the parish has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year even as unemployment has eased.
Things to do. Esler Field Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Kisatchie National Forest, a large protected forest, and to the Alexandria Museum of Art. Catahoula Lake, also a longer drive away, is a good choice for time on the water.
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- 16 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Grant Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant Parish had 3,411 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alexandria Esler Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant Parish
- Grant Parish SchoolsSchool district378FTE
- Hunt Forest Products, LLC - PollockSoftwood veneer or plywood manufacturing337
- Jena Choctaw Pines CasinoCasinos269
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice263
- Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation of PollockSkilled nursing facilities85
- Colfax Nursing and RehabNursing homes70
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 761 people in all across the county; Pollock has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pollock’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 Grant Parish and the Alexandria, LA metro.
Pollock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pollock$193,609
- 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.
- Pollock13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pollock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pollock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.