Reserve, Louisiana.
Typical home $169,135 (-0.2% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$235 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $331 -0%
- $169,466$169,135 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,955 -5%
- $178,089$169,135 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.
- Reserve$888
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Reserve, LA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Reserve, in St. John the Baptist Parish, had 8,541 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $55,450 a year and half less, against $66,630 across St. John the Baptist Parish; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in St. John the Baptist Parish was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Reserve is a community along the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Residents are a little older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes are below the parish's, and a sizable part of the community lives below the poverty line, while a four-year degree is held by relatively few adults.
Work. Residents work mainly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in other services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Reserve are St. John the Baptist Parish Schools, Denka Performance Elastomers and Halls Industrial. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is moderate. Unemployment across the parish has eased compared with a year earlier, and the parish has added jobs.
Things to do. The Whitney Plantation Historic District and the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House are museums a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Pontchartrain, the Audubon Zoo and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Winters here are mild and almost snow-free, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 2,924households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. John the Baptist Parish had 13,415 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Reserve
- St. John the Baptist Parish SchoolsSchool district734FTE
- Denka Performance ElastomersRubber, synthetic, manufacturing214
- Halls IndustrialIndustrial building construction, general contractors150
- DSC Dredge LLC (Reserve)Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing147
- Diversified Well LoggingOil and gas field services on a contract basis140
- Cargill Reserve Grain ExportGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain120
- DuPont PontchartrainCarbon organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing116
- Schneider88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,242 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of ReserveRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of ReserveRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Reserve’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. John the Baptist Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Reserve home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Reserve$169,135
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Reserve listings — 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.
- Reserve18.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Reserve23
Zip codes with a Reserve address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Reserve — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.