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Housing in Simmesport

A typical Simmesport home is worth roughly $63,000

No new homes were permitted in 2008.

Typical home value
$63K
LA $217K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$830
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$199
LA $1,180

What kind of housing town is Simmesport?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.1 years of income

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

You could afford about
$127,000
Typical Simmesport home $63K

That covers a typical Simmesport home, with $64K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$350
Loan $310Tax $20Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $830 a month here, $480 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Simmesport’s typical property tax (0.32% 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 $830

Renters already here pay a median of $619, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$610
1 bedroom$640
2 bedrooms$830
3 bedrooms$1,070
4 bedrooms$1,240
38%
of households rent · LA 33%
206
renter households
69%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · LA 55%
34%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$619
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Avoyelles 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 2008

No permits for new homes were issued in Simmesport in 2008 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 20002005
0
new homes permitted in 2008
0
homes in the past 9 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2008000—
2007000—
2006000—
2005000—
2004000—
2003000—
2002000—
2001000—
2000000—

Simmesport's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2008, so the 2008 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

1 of Simmesport’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Simmesport’s homes were built before 1975.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 62%Rent 38%

Louisiana: 67% own.

1975
typical home built · LA 1983
$199
median property tax bill · LA $1,180
0.32%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · LA 0.55%
5%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes
Historic houses in Simmesport

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

On the market in Simmesport

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

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What Simmesport buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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