Westwego, Louisiana.
Typical home $176,791 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,535 (+1.6%). New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$254 (+38%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $415 +0%
- $176,375$176,791 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,900 -10%
- $195,691$176,791 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.
- Westwego$928
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Westwego, LA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Westwego, LA rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Westwego runs $341/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $404 in Dec 2025.
That is $1,194 a month against $1,535 rent: a $928 mortgage payment, plus $77 property tax and $189 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Westwego
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,194
- Renting$1,535
- Mortgage only$928
Property tax · $77/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson Parish, LA
Insurance & upkeep · $189/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Westwego, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Westwego is a city of 8,568 people in Jefferson Parish. Half its households earn more than $46,261 a year and half less, against $65,252 across Jefferson Parish; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson Parish was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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. Westwego is a small city on the west bank of the Mississippi, in Jefferson Parish. Incomes here run well below the parish's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. About as many households own their homes as rent them. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are long and hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jefferson Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Jefferson Parish Schools and West Jefferson Medical Center. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Bayou Segnette State Park, a protected area, sits in or beside town, as does Audubon Zoo. A short drive away are the Caesars Superdome, a stadium, and the National World War II Museum. Lake Pontchartrain is a longer drive away for a day out by the water.
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- 3,663households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Parish had 186,101 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 65 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Orleans Audubon weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson Parish
- Ochsner Clinic FoundationGeneral hospital10,401FTE
- Jefferson Parish SchoolsSchool district6,413FTE
- East Jefferson General HospialGeneral hospital3,353FTE
- Intralox NOPlastic belt manufacturing1,639
- West Jefferson Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,286FTE
- Ochsner Medical Center - KennerGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,081
- Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank CampusGeneral medical and surgical hospitals873
- Ochsner Clinic FoundationOffice administrative services776
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 321 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,973 people in all across the county; Westwego has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Westwego’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 Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro.
Westwego home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westwego$176,791
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Westwego listings, and the typical home goes pending in 49 days — 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.
- Westwego24.04%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westwego106
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westwego23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Westwego$156,823
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Westwego address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westwego — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.