Vienna, Louisiana.
Typical home $387,048 (+3.4% in a year). Ruston, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+54%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,621 +3%
- $374,427$387,048 since Sep 2025
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.
- Vienna$2,032
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Vienna, LA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vienna, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Vienna is a town of 483 people in Lincoln Parish. Unemployment in Lincoln Parish was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vienna is a very small town in Lincoln Parish, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for much of the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Some people work from home. Across Lincoln Parish, the largest workplaces include Louisiana Tech University, Lincoln Parish Schools and Grambling State University. The parish has gained jobs over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are Joe Aillet Stadium, a stadium, and the Dixie Center for the Arts, a theatre. The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. For time by the water, Lake D'Arbonne State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Lincoln Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln Parish had 19,084 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ruston La Tech weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln Parish
- Louisiana Tech UniversityUniversity or college1,343
- Lincoln Parish SchoolsSchool district791FTE
- Grambling State UniversityUniversity or college498
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- North Louisiana Medical CenterGeneral hospital259FTE
- AramarkFood service contractors234
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers185
- Kronospan SimsboroBoard, particle, manufacturing169
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,432 people in all across the county; Vienna has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vienna’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 Lincoln Parish and the Ruston, LA metro.
Vienna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vienna$387,048
- 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.
Zip codes with a Vienna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vienna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.