Tickfaw, Louisiana.
Typical home $197,290 (+2.2% in a year). Hammond, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,336 +2%
- $192,954$197,290 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,903 -3%
- $204,193$197,290 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.
- Tickfaw$1,036
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Tickfaw, LA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Tickfaw is a village of 635 people in Tangipahoa Parish. Unemployment in Tangipahoa Parish was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Tangipahoa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tickfaw is a small village in Tangipahoa Parish, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, though the parish's household incomes sit below the national middle. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers run hot, especially in August, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Tangipahoa Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Tangipahoa Parish Schools, North Oaks Medical Center and Southeastern Louisiana University. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a few people working from home. In the parish, unemployment has eased a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. A short drive away, Strawberry Stadium is a stadium for local games, and the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts is a theatre for shows and concerts. The Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum is also a short drive off. A longer drive brings you to Tickfaw State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Tangipahoa Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tangipahoa Parish had 47,216 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hammond East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tangipahoa Parish
- Tangipahoa Parish SchoolsSchool district2,411FTE
- North Oaks Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- Southeastern Louisiana UniversityUniversity or college1,402
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage961
- Sanderson Farms Hammond ProcessingPoultry processing548
- Lallie Kemp Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital391FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Hammond, LA (GDC)384
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,298 people in all across the county; Tickfaw has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of TickfawRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tickfaw’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 Tangipahoa Parish and the Hammond, LA metro.
Tickfaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tickfaw$197,290
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Tickfaw 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.
- Tickfaw27.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tickfaw22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Tickfaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tickfaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.