Saint Bernard, Louisiana.
Typical home $176,614 (+5.5% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+37%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,140 +5%
- $167,475$176,614 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,206 -11%
- $198,820$176,614 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.
- Saint Bernard$927
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Saint Bernard, LA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Bernard, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
The Census does not count Saint Bernard on its own, so the figures here are St. Bernard Parish's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,651 a year and half less; 23% 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 St. Bernard Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Bernard 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Bernard is a town in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, a low-lying area southeast of New Orleans. Across the parish, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild here, and summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. Across the parish, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has held roughly steady. The typical commute takes a good stretch of time, and few people work from home.
Things to do. St. Bernard State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a quiet day outdoors. The Cabildo, a museum, and the Caesars Superdome, a stadium, are both a longer drive away.
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- 16,219households
- 36.2median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in St. Bernard Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Bernard Parish had 11,268 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Bernard weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Bernard Parish
- St. Bernard Parish SchoolsSchool district902FTE
- Chalmette RefiningCrude oil refining586
- Performance Personnel Services of New OrleansEmployment placement agencies or services534
- ASR GroupSugarcane refining509
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters444
- St. Bernard Parish HospitalGeneral hospital247FTE
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores147
- Nunez Community CollegeTwo-year college144
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,256 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Bernard Parish, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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. Bernard Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Saint Bernard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Bernard$176,614
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Saint Bernard 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.
- Saint Bernard15.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Bernard23
Zip codes with a Saint Bernard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Bernard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.