Violet, Louisiana.
Typical home $171,595 (+6.2% in a year). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+51%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,943 +6%
- $161,652$171,595 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,122 -8%
- $185,717$171,595 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.
- Violet$901
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Violet, LA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Violet, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Violet, in St. Bernard Parish, had 5,758 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $51,038 a year and half less, against $58,651 across St. Bernard Parish; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in St. Bernard Parish was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Violet is a small community in St. Bernard Parish, and nearly everyone here lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the parish's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than many would expect. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and many residents face a long trip to work. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still cool rather than freezing, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across St. Bernard Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Bernard Parish Schools, Chalmette Refining and the St. Bernard Parish Hospital. Unemployment in the parish has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has stayed close to level. A fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. St. Bernard State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans and to Lake Pontchartrain.
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- 1,543households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Bernard Parish had 11,268 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Bernard weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Bernard Parish
- St. Bernard Parish SchoolsSchool district902FTE
- Chalmette RefiningCrude oil refining586
- Performance Personnel Services of New OrleansEmployment placement agencies or services534
- ASR GroupSugarcane refining509
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters444
- St. Bernard Parish HospitalGeneral hospital247FTE
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores147
- Nunez Community CollegeTwo-year college144
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,256 people in all across the county; Violet 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Violet’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 St. Bernard Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Violet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Violet$171,595
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Violet 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.
- Violet26.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Violet22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Violet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Violet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.