Robert, Louisiana.
Typical home $227,399 (+2.6% in a year). Hammond, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$581 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,663 +3%
- $221,736$227,399 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,193 +20%
- $190,206$227,399 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.
- Robert$1,194
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Robert, LA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Robert, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Robert on its own, so the figures here are Tangipahoa Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,760 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Tangipahoa Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Tangipahoa Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Robert is a town in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. Winters are cool and summers are hot, and rain falls heavily through much of the year. Across the parish, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a notable share of households live near or below the poverty line.
Work. Across Tangipahoa Parish, most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Most people commute by car, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. The Global Wildlife Center, a zoo a short drive away, and the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, a theatre also a short drive away, are both close by. Lake Pontchartrain, a lake a longer drive away, is the first of the lakes listed nearby.
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- 51,999households
- 35.9median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Tangipahoa Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tangipahoa Parish had 47,216 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hammond East weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tangipahoa Parish
- Tangipahoa Parish SchoolsSchool district2,411FTE
- North Oaks Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- Southeastern Louisiana UniversityUniversity or college1,402
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage961
- Sanderson Farms Hammond ProcessingPoultry processing548
- Lallie Kemp Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital391FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Hammond, LA (GDC)384
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,298 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tangipahoa Parish, 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 Tangipahoa Parish and the Hammond, LA metro.
Robert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Robert$227,399
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Robert 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.
- Robert37.52%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Robert21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Robert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Robert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.