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Housing in Provencal

A typical Provencal home is worth roughly $116,000

Typical home value
$116K
LA $217K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,020
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$222
LA $1,180

What kind of housing town is Provencal?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.5 years of income

Less than across Louisiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$341,000
Typical Provencal home $116K

That covers a typical Provencal home, with $225K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$630
Loan $580Tax $20Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $390 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Provencal’s typical property tax (0.20% 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 $1,020

Renters already here pay a median of $796, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$1,020
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,640
20%
of households rent · LA 33%
40
renter households
$796
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

80% of Provencal households own their home

Half of Provencal’s homes were built before 1978.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Louisiana: 67% own.

1978
typical home built · LA 1983
$222
median property tax bill · LA $1,180
0.20%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · LA 0.55%

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

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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. 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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