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Housing in Pioneer

A typical Pioneer home is worth roughly $50,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$50K
LA $217K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$900
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Pioneer?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Pioneer

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You could afford about
$250,000
Typical Pioneer home $50K

That covers a typical Pioneer home, with $200K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$280
Loan $250Tax $20Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $900 a month here, $620 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $900

Renters already here pay a median of $844.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$660
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$900
3 bedrooms$1,180
4 bedrooms$1,250
65%
of households rent · LA 33%
68
renter households
$844
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (West Carroll Parish, LA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Pioneer in 2025 or in any year since 2002.

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2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
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homes in the past 10 years
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Pioneer's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

35% of Pioneer households own their home

Half of Pioneer’s homes were built before 1988.

Owners and renters
Own 35%Rent 65%

Louisiana: 67% own.

1988
typical home built · LA 1983

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

On the market in Pioneer

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. 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.

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