Simsboro, Louisiana.
Typical home $159,073 (+2.9% in a year). Ruston, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$331 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,445 +3%
- $154,628$159,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,328 +2%
- $155,745$159,073 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.
- Simsboro$835
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Simsboro, LA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Simsboro is a village of 803 people in Lincoln Parish. Half its households earn more than $31,658 a year and half less, against $39,172 across Lincoln Parish. Unemployment in Lincoln Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Simsboro is a small village in Lincoln Parish, home to very few people compared with most American towns. Household incomes here run below the parish's, and the typical home is valued modestly. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Very few work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Lincoln Parish, the largest workplaces include Louisiana Tech University, Lincoln Parish Schools and Grambling State University.
Things to do. A short drive away are Eddie Robinson Stadium and Joe Aillet Stadium, both stadiums, along with the Dixie Center for the Arts, a theatre. The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. For time by the water, Lake Claiborne State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Lincoln Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln Parish had 19,084 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ruston La Tech weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln Parish
- Louisiana Tech UniversityUniversity or college1,343
- Lincoln Parish SchoolsSchool district791FTE
- Grambling State UniversityUniversity or college498
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- North Louisiana Medical CenterGeneral hospital259FTE
- AramarkFood service contractors234
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers185
- Kronospan SimsboroBoard, particle, manufacturing169
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,432 people in all across the county; Simsboro has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 windVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Simsboro’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 Lincoln Parish and the Ruston, LA metro.
Simsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Simsboro$159,073
- 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.
Zip codes with a Simsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Simsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.