Ventress, Louisiana.
Typical home $294,138 (+5.1% in a year). Baton Rouge, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$727 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,227 +5%
- $279,911$294,138 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,128 +19%
- $248,010$294,138 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.
- Ventress$1,544
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Ventress, LA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ventress, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Ventress, in Pointe Coupee Parish, had 800 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pointe Coupee Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pointe Coupee Parish work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ventress is a very small community in Pointe Coupee Parish, where homes carry a typical value well above what many people expect for a rural Louisiana setting. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Across Pointe Coupee Parish, the largest workplaces include Pointe Coupee Parish Schools, Alma Plantation and Pointe Coupee General Hospital. Unemployment across the parish is lower than a year ago, though the parish has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Port Hudson State Historic Site, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, the USS Kidd museum and the Baton Rouge Zoo are a longer drive away, and Tiger Stadium is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Pointe Coupee Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pointe Coupee Parish had 5,229 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Roads Northeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pointe Coupee Parish
- Pointe Coupee Parish SchoolsSchool district351FTE
- Alma PlantationCane farming, sugar, field production279
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters225
- Pointe Coupee General HospitalCritical access hospital179FTE
- Pelican Power - Big Cajun 2Power generation, fossil fuel, electric119
- First Student113
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction104
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,280 people in all across the county; Ventress 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ventress’ 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 Pointe Coupee Parish and the Baton Rouge, LA metro.
Ventress home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ventress$294,138
- 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.
- Ventress13
Zip codes with a Ventress address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ventress — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.