Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Typical home $225,208 (-0.0% in a year), asking rent $1,226 (+6.9%). Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$376 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $91 -0%
- $225,300$225,208 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,633 -3%
- $232,842$225,208 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.
- Thibodaux$1,182
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Thibodaux, LA fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Thibodaux, LA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Thibodaux runs $298/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $469 in May 2024.
That is $1,524 a month against $1,226 rent: a $1,182 mortgage payment, plus $100 property tax and $241 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Thibodaux
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,524
- Renting$1,226
- Mortgage only$1,182
Property tax · $100/mo 0.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Lafourche Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $241/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Thibodaux is a city of 15,948 people in Lafourche Parish. Half its households earn more than $52,072 a year and half less, against $63,135 across Lafourche Parish; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Lafourche Parish was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Thibodaux is a city in Lafourche Parish, and its people are somewhat older than in many American towns. Household incomes run below the parish's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Thibodaux are Lafourche Parish Schools, Thibodaux Regional Health System and Walmart. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium is a stadium in or beside town. A short drive away is the Edward Douglass White House, a museum. For time on the water, Lac des Allemands is a lake a longer drive away, and so is Bayou Teche, a river.
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- 6,773households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafourche Parish had 35,052 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 71 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thibodaux Southeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thibodaux
- Lafourche Parish SchoolsSchool district1,602FTE
- Thibodaux Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital1,121FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters308
- John Deere ThibodauxHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing301
- Acadian - Bayou DistrictEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground180
- Leading Home Care - ThibodauxCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities164
- Rouses MarketGrocery stores145
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,362 people in all. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of ThibodauxRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of ThibodauxRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ThibodauxRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thibodaux’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lafourche Parish and the Houma-Thibodaux, LA metro.
Thibodaux home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thibodaux$225,208
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Thibodaux listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 days — 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.
- Thibodaux22.58%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Thibodaux38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thibodaux201
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thibodaux39
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Thibodaux$233,370
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Thibodaux98.88%
Zip codes with a Thibodaux address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thibodaux — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.