River Ridge, Louisiana.
Typical home $344,925 (+5.2% in a year), asking rent $1,800 . New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$654 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,089 +5%
- $327,836$344,925 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,213 -5%
- $363,139$344,925 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.
- River Ridge$1,810
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in River Ridge, LA rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in River Ridge, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
River Ridge, in Jefferson Parish, had 13,591 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $84,336 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. River Ridge is a community in Jefferson Parish where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than much of the country. Household incomes run well above the parish's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with almost no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Some of the largest workplaces in River Ridge are Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Breaux Mart Supermarkets and The Villas, an assisted living facility. Commutes are typical for a metro area, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lafreniere Park and the Jefferson Performing Arts Center are in or beside town, offering a park and a theatre close to home. A short drive away are Audubon Zoo and the National World War II Museum, both well-known stops for visitors and locals alike. Lake Pontchartrain is a longer drive away for a day by the water.
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- 5,821households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Parish had 186,101 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in River Ridge
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.Supermarket82
- Breaux Mart SupermarketsFood stores58
- The VillasAssisted living facility41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 181 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of River RidgeRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in River Ridge’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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
River Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- River Ridge$344,925
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 River Ridge 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.
- River Ridge29.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- River Ridge76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- River Ridge15
Zip codes with a River Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls River Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.