Sunset, Louisiana.
Typical home $212,558 (+4.0% in a year). Opelousas, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$411 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,175 +4%
- $204,383$212,558 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,309 +4%
- $204,249$212,558 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.
- Sunset$1,116
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 87 years.
Typical home values in Sunset, LA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunset, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Sunset is a town of 2,909 people in St. Landry Parish. Unemployment in St. Landry Parish was 4.6% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunset is a small town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, with a younger population than much of the country. Typical home values sit in the low-to-middle range for a US town, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many places. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain falls through the year, and the total is on the heavy side.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and government also employing many. Across St. Landry Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Landry Parish Schools, Opelousas General Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the parish has eased compared with a year earlier, and the parish has gained a few more jobs over the past year. Some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Rural African American Museum is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, a large protected area of swamp and wetland, and to the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, a museum tied to the region's history. Lake Peigneur, also a longer drive away, offers a lake setting.
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- 1,133households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Landry Parish had 23,882 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Coteau weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Landry Parish
- St. Landry Parish SchoolsSchool district1,676FTE
- Opelousas General HospitalGeneral hospital902FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage884
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Boyd GamingCasino racetrack329
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Delek-Krotz Springs RefineryCrude oil refining219
- Acadian Medical CenterGeneral hospital210FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,937 people in all across the county; Sunset has one 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of SunsetRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunset’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 St. Landry Parish and the Opelousas, LA metro.
Sunset home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunset$212,558
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sunset 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.
- Sunset27.00%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sunset22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sunset7
Zip codes with a Sunset address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunset — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.