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Housing in Wallace Ridge

A typical Wallace Ridge home is worth roughly $200,000

Typical home value
$200K
LA $217K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$840
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$882
LA $1,180
Affordability

What it takes to buy in Wallace Ridge

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$254,000
Typical Wallace Ridge home $200K

That covers a typical Wallace Ridge home, with $54K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,120
Loan $990Tax $70Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $840 a month here, $280 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Wallace Ridge’s typical property tax (0.44% 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 $840

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$620
1 bedroom$650
2 bedrooms$840
3 bedrooms$1,160
4 bedrooms$1,260
27%
of households rent · LA 33%
58
renter households

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

73% of Wallace Ridge households own their home

Half of Wallace Ridge’s homes were built before 1976.

Owners and renters
Own 73%Rent 27%

Louisiana: 67% own.

1976
typical home built · LA 1983
$882
median property tax bill · LA $1,180
0.44%
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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