Vinton, Louisiana.
Typical home $142,762 (+8.3% in a year). Lake Charles, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$41 (+6%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,953 +8%
- $131,809$142,762 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,588 -14%
- $165,349$142,762 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.
- Vinton$749
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vinton, LA rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vinton, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Vinton is a town of 3,400 people in Calcasieu Parish. Half its households earn more than $41,875 a year and half less, against $67,564 across Calcasieu Parish. Unemployment in Calcasieu Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calcasieu 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vinton is a small town in Calcasieu Parish, with a younger population than many older Louisiana communities. Household incomes run below the parish's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are mild and snow is rare, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Calcasieu Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Calcasieu Parish Schools, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital and Citgo Petroleum. Unemployment across the parish is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Sam Houston Jones State Park is a protected area of woods and water, a longer drive away. The Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away. Sabine Lake offers open water for those willing to travel a bit farther.
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- 972households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Calcasieu Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calcasieu Parish had 89,310 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orange North weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calcasieu Parish
- Calcasieu Parish SchoolsSchool district4,019FTE
- Golden Nugget Lake CharlesHotels, resort, with casinos1,938
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels1,631
- Lake Charles Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,531FTE
- Citgo PetroleumOil refineries1,173
- Westlake Chemical SouthChlorine compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing1,084
- Sasol Chemicals (USA)Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons787
- Phillips 66Petroleum refineries749
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,452 people in all across the county; Vinton 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vinton’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 Calcasieu Parish and the Lake Charles, LA metro.
Vinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vinton$142,762
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Vinton 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.
- Vinton16.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vinton25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Vinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.