Ringgold, Louisiana.
Typical home $116,944 (-8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $117 (-16%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $10,712 -8%
- $127,656$116,944 since Sep 2025
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.
- Ringgold$614
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ringgold, LA fell 8.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Ringgold is a town of 1,379 people in Bienville Parish. Unemployment in Bienville Parish was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bienville 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ringgold is a small town in Bienville Parish, in the piney woods of northwest Louisiana. Incomes across the parish run well below the national picture, and homes in town are modestly priced. Very few adults here hold a four-year degree, and a small number of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Among the largest workplaces across Bienville Parish are Bienville Parish Schools, Haynes International, and Bienville Lumber Company, L.L.C.- Taylor. Unemployment across the parish is a little lower than a year ago, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Bistineau State Park, a protected area, and Loggy Bayou, a river, are both a short drive away and suit fishing, paddling and time outdoors. For a longer outing, the Eighth Air Force Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and Black Lake is a reservoir, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and chilly rather than harsh, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 8%work from home
What people in Bienville Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bienville Parish had 4,006 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bienville Parish
- Bienville Parish SchoolsSchool district369FTE
- Haynes InternationalTubing, nonferrous metals, made from purchased metals or scrap203
- Bienville Lumber Company, L.L.C.- TaylorBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts193
- Onyx Care of ArcadiaSkilled nursing facilities127
- WilliamsStorage of natural gas126
- Onyx Care of RinggoldSkilled nursing facilities114
- Murphy Bros. Trucking & ConstructionTrucking, general freight, local100
- Bienville Medical CenterCritical access hospital71FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,070 people in all across the county; Ringgold has one 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ringgold’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Bienville Parish.
Ringgold home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ringgold$116,944
- 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.
- Ringgold7
Zip codes with a Ringgold address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ringgold — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.