Sterlington, Louisiana.
Typical home $223,114 (+1.8% in a year). Monroe, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$529 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,997 +2%
- $219,118$223,114 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,497 +15%
- $194,617$223,114 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.
- Sterlington$1,171
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Sterlington, LA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sterlington, Union Parish, Louisiana
Sterlington is a town of 1,980 people in Union Parish. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Union Parish was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sterlington is a small town in Union Parish, Louisiana, with a population that has stayed modest. More homes here are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good share of households rent. Typical household incomes across the parish run below the national picture, and a noticeable number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot. Rainfall is plentiful through the year, so the area stays green.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and government. Across Union Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Case Farms, a poultry processor, Union Parish Schools, and Walmart. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away and the easiest spot for a walk or time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Chemin-A-Haut State Park, a protected area, and to the Biedenharn Museum and Gardens, a botanical garden. Watson Brake, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 977households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union Parish had 5,513 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bastrop weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union Parish
- Case FarmsPoultry processing1,593
- Union Parish SchoolsSchool district273FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Advancion - SterlingtonOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing174
- QSIJanitorial services126
- D'Arbonne Woods Charter SchoolSchool district118FTE
- Union General HospitalCritical access hospital114FTE
- Arbor Lake Skilled Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes104
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,565 people in all across the county; Sterlington has none of its own. School districts come 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of SterlingtonRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SterlingtonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sterlington’s census tracts, 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 Union Parish and the Monroe, LA metro.
Sterlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sterlington$223,114
- 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.
- Sterlington12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sterlington5
Zip codes with a Sterlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sterlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.