Raceland, Louisiana.
Typical home $171,761 (+0.3% in a year). Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$215 (+31%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $475 +0%
- $171,285$171,761 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,899 -12%
- $195,660$171,761 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.
- Raceland$902
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Raceland, LA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Raceland, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Raceland, in Lafourche Parish, had 9,768 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $60,286 a year and half less, against $63,135 across Lafourche Parish; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Lafourche Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Raceland is a community in Lafourche Parish where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live here are somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes sit a little below the parish's, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings a lot of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in government, or in manufacturing. Ochsner Bayou, a critical access hospital, and Raceland Raw Sugar, a sugar cane manufacturer, are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Ochsner's local health centers. Unemployment in the parish is a little lower than a year earlier, and few people work from home, so the daily commute is a real part of the routine.
Things to do. The Edward Douglass White House, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Lac des Allemands is a lake to visit by car, and Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum site that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 3,845households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafourche Parish had 35,052 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 71 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thibodaux Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Raceland
- Ochsner BayouCritical access hospital259FTE
- Raceland Raw SugarSugar, cane, manufacturing198
- Ochsner Health Center - RacelandOffices of physicians31
- Ochsner Specialty Health Center - RacelandOffices of physicians25
- RacelandGambling device arcades or parlors, coin-operated20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 616 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of RacelandRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of RacelandRelatively 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 Raceland’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 Lafourche Parish and the Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
Raceland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Raceland$171,761
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Raceland listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Raceland18.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Raceland43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Raceland6
Zip codes with a Raceland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Raceland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.