Vivian, Louisiana.
Typical home $89,403 (+6.4% in a year). Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$101 (+27%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,406 +6%
- $83,998$89,403 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,304 -12%
- $101,707$89,403 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.
- Vivian$469
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vivian, LA rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vivian, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Vivian is a town of 3,073 people in Caddo Parish. Unemployment in Caddo Parish was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caddo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vivian is a small town in the northwest corner of Louisiana, in Caddo Parish. Its residents are younger than is typical for the country as a whole, and household incomes across the parish are modest. Homes in town are among the more affordable you will find. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, and summers run long and hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Caddo Parish, the largest workplaces include Willis-Knighton Health Systems, Caddo Parish Schools and Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and commutes are on the long side, with very few people working from home. Parish unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Caddo Lake is a reservoir of cypress and bayou country, and Caddo Lake State Park and Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge protect parts of it, each a longer drive away. Those who like gardens can head to The Gardens of the American Rose Center, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,270households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Caddo Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caddo Parish had 110,419 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mooringsport North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caddo Parish
- Willis-knighton Health SystemsGeneral hospital4,669FTE
- Caddo Parish SchoolsSchool district3,887FTE
- Ochsner LSU Health ShreveportGeneral hospital2,090FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,972
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,714
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportUniversity or college1,202
- Christus Shreveport-bossier Health SGeneral hospital989FTE
- Willis-Knighton South and the Center for Women's HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals888
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,370 people in all across the county; Vivian has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vivian’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 Caddo Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro.
Vivian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vivian$89,403
- 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.
- Vivian9
Zip codes with a Vivian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vivian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.