Scott, Louisiana.
Typical home $220,967 (+2.9% in a year). Lafayette, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$408 (+54%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,293 +3%
- $214,673$220,967 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,911 +4%
- $213,056$220,967 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.
- Scott$1,160
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 95 years.
Typical home values in Scott, LA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scott, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Scott is a city of 8,119 people in Lafayette Parish. Half its households earn more than $56,299 a year and half less, against $67,451 across Lafayette Parish; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Lafayette Parish was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scott is a small Louisiana city in Lafayette Parish, with a median age somewhat older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits well within reach of many households. Incomes in town run below the parish's, and a share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Scott are Brookshire Grocery Company, the Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Colt. Unemployment in the parish is lower than it was a year earlier, and the parish has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Cypress Lake offers a spot by the water, and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum is a place for an afternoon indoors. Cajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium is also close by for a game. Farther afield, the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of wetland and bayou worth a longer drive.
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- 3,846households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette Parish had 139,145 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lafayette weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers97
- ColtRecyclable materials merchant wholesalers91
- Ochsner Clinic FoundationAll other miscellaneous ambulatory health care services53
- Louisiana Concrete PumpersConcrete pumping47
- Grizzly RoofingAsphalt roof shingle installation38
- EdenScapesLandscape care and maintenance services35
- Peterbilt of LafayetteTruck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers24
- XPOFreight transportation23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 513 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scott’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 Lafayette Parish and the Lafayette, LA metro.
Scott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scott$220,967
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Scott 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.
- Scott23.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scott43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Scott11
Zip codes with a Scott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.