A typical Amelia home is worth roughly $83,000
Home prices around Amelia have risen about 3.7% over the past 5 years.
What kind of housing town is Amelia?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.5 years of income
Less than across Louisiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Amelia home, with $143K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $500 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Louisiana typical property tax (0.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 3.7% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Amelia rose 3.7% over the past 5 years, slower than across Louisiana (22%). Last year prices fell 9.6%. Carrying the Census median home value forward with that index puts the typical Amelia home at roughly $83,000 today.
Carrying the Census median forward with the index puts a typical home at about $83K.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Amelia, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $583, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Assumption Parish, LA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
80% of Amelia households own their home
Half of Amelia’s homes were built before 1980.
Louisiana: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Neighbors talk housing
What Amelia buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.