Washington, Louisiana.
Typical home $155,992 (+0.4% in a year). Opelousas, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$131 (+19%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $676 +0%
- $155,316$155,992 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $35,363 -18%
- $191,356$155,992 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.
- Washington$819
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Washington, LA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Washington is a town of 742 people in St. Landry Parish. Unemployment in St. Landry Parish was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Landry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a very small town in St. Landry Parish, with a population smaller than most places that carry the name of a town. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the parish run lower than in much of the country. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights in January, while summers turn hot by August, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment close behind. Across St. Landry Parish, the largest workplaces include St. Landry Parish Schools, Opelousas General Hospital and Walmart. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the parish has eased a little over the past year, and the parish has added jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Thistlethwaite State Wildlife Management Area offers protected land to explore, and the Rural African American Museum is a museum within easy reach. Farther afield, Chicot State Park is a protected area with a lake and woods, reached by a longer drive.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in St. Landry Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Landry Parish had 23,882 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Coteau weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Landry Parish
- St. Landry Parish SchoolsSchool district1,676FTE
- Opelousas General HospitalGeneral hospital902FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage884
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- Boyd GamingCasino racetrack329
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Delek-Krotz Springs RefineryCrude oil refining219
- Acadian Medical CenterGeneral hospital210FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,937 people in all across the county; Washington 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’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. Landry Parish and the Opelousas, LA metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$155,992
- 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.
- Washington8
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.