Slaughter, Louisiana.
Typical home $237,863 (-0.2% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$431 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $565 -0%
- $238,428$237,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $319 +0%
- $237,544$237,863 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.
- Slaughter$1,248
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Slaughter, LA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Slaughter, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Slaughter is a town of 1,035 people in East Feliciana Parish. Half its households earn more than $72,438 a year and half less, against $73,085 across East Feliciana Parish; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in East Feliciana Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Slaughter is a very small town in East Feliciana Parish, and most of the homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is typical across the country. Household incomes sit a little below the parish's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work in professional and business services, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing. Across East Feliciana Parish, the largest workplaces include the East LA State Mental Health System, East Feliciana Parish Schools and Grace Nursing Home. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Port Hudson State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Baton Rouge Zoo, and farther afield are Audubon State Historic Site and Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas.
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- 423households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. East Feliciana Parish had 5,235 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton Southeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in East Feliciana Parish
- East La State Mental Health SystemPsychiatric hospital1,327FTE
- East Feliciana Parish SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Grace Nursing HomeNursing homes116
- Atlas-SSI, Inc - SlaughterCrushing, pulverizing, and screening machinery, portable, manufacturing106
- PacTecRulers, plastics, manufacturing85
- WilliamsGas, natural, pipeline operation63
- Tri-parish CoopFarm supplies merchant wholesalers50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 420 people in all across the county; Slaughter has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Slaughter’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 East Feliciana Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Slaughter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Slaughter$237,863
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Slaughter5
Zip codes with a Slaughter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Slaughter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.