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Home appreciation in Houma, LA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Houma, LA grew an average of 3.5% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+1.8%

2025 over 2024. Louisiana: +3.0%.

5-year, per year

+3.5%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Louisiana: +4.5%.

10-year, per year

+2.5%

+28.1% in total since 2015. Louisiana: +3.6%.

How does your home compare?

Houma, LA home prices rose 28.1% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +9.7% to +35.6%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Houma, LA compares with Louisiana

Louisiana averaged +4.5% a year, putting Houma, LA behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Houma, LA ranks 407th out of 409 metros nationwide and 9th out of 10 in Louisiana.

Index, 2005 = 100

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA and Louisiana, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearHouma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LALouisiana
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101102
2005 Q3102104
2005 Q4105108
2006 Q1107111
2006 Q2110114
2006 Q3113116
2006 Q4115118
2007 Q1117119
2007 Q2121120
2007 Q3121121
2007 Q4127122
2008 Q1127122
2008 Q2128122
2008 Q3127120
2008 Q4128120
2009 Q1129122
2009 Q2128121
2009 Q3128119
2009 Q4128120
2010 Q1128119
2010 Q2129118
2010 Q3128119
2010 Q4129119
2011 Q1128117
2011 Q2126117
2011 Q3127117
2011 Q4128119
2012 Q1128118
2012 Q2127118
2012 Q3129120
2012 Q4131120
2013 Q1129120
2013 Q2131120
2013 Q3132121
2013 Q4132121
2014 Q1133121
2014 Q2132123
2014 Q3135125
2014 Q4135125
2015 Q1135126
2015 Q2137128
2015 Q3136129
2015 Q4138129
2016 Q1138130
2016 Q2139132
2016 Q3138133
2016 Q4139134
2017 Q1137133
2017 Q2138135
2017 Q3139137
2017 Q4140137
2018 Q1139137
2018 Q2141138
2018 Q3139138
2018 Q4139139
2019 Q1141140
2019 Q2142141
2019 Q3143142
2019 Q4143143
2020 Q1144145
2020 Q2147146
2020 Q3149147
2020 Q4148149
2021 Q1149151
2021 Q2151155
2021 Q3156160
2021 Q4158164
2022 Q1162168
2022 Q2166176
2022 Q3169176
2022 Q4170175
2023 Q1166174
2023 Q2171176
2023 Q3172175
2023 Q4174174
2024 Q1175177
2024 Q2169178
2024 Q3171178
2024 Q4171179
2025 Q1174180
2025 Q2178182
2025 Q3173184
2025 Q4175186
2026 Q1179185
2026 Q2176188

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Five-year and ten-year growth rates were similar, at +2.5% a year over ten years and +28.1% in total, suggesting a similar pattern over both periods.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 0.9% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2006 at +9.2%, and the weakest was 2011 at -0.9%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +1.8%, against +3.0% for the state.

ZIP codes in Houma, LA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +9.7% in 70345 to +35.6% in 70363, while the metro as a whole rose 28.1%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 70363+35.6%
  2. 70301+29.9%
  3. 70343+27.6%
  4. 70374+27.6%
  5. 70394+24.4%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 70345+9.7%
  2. 70364+14.6%
  3. 70395+15.1%
  4. 70360+18.7%
  5. 70359+20.4%
ZIP codes in Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
70363+8.9%+4.3%+3.1%+35.6%
70301+2.2%+4.1%+2.6%+29.9%
70343-5.8%+2.5%+2.5%+27.6%
70374+4.4%+3.6%+2.5%+27.6%
70394-9.5%+3.2%+2.2%+24.4%
70359-15.1%+2.4%+1.9%+20.4%
70360+4.5%+2.6%+1.7%+18.7%
70395-9.0%+0.4%+1.4%+15.1%
70364-4.1%+1.6%+1.4%+14.6%
70345-19.0%+2.4%+0.9%+9.7%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA and Louisiana, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006109.2+9.2%110.9
2007119.0+8.9%116.6
2008124.9+5.0%117.0
2009125.9+0.8%116.6
2010126.0+0.1%114.9
2011124.9-0.9%113.6
2012126.1+1.0%115.1
2013128.2+1.6%116.6
2014131.3+2.5%119.3
2015133.7+1.8%123.8
2016135.7+1.6%128.1
2017135.70.0%131.1
2018136.8+0.8%133.3
2019139.5+2.0%137.1
2020143.9+3.1%142.0
2021150.2+4.4%152.4
2022163.5+8.9%167.8
2023167.4+2.4%169.2
2024168.1+0.5%171.8
2025171.2+1.8%176.9

The 10 measured metros in Louisiana

Measured metros in Louisiana ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Hammond, LA+4.7%+6.4%+4.5%
2Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA+3.5%+6.0%+4.4%
3Monroe, LA+4.7%+5.0%+3.5%
4Baton Rouge, LA+3.3%+4.8%+3.9%
5Alexandria, LA+0.6%+4.6%+3.3%
6Lafayette, LA+3.5%+4.5%+3.0%
7Shreveport-Bossier City, LA+1.2%+4.3%+3.0%
8New Orleans-Metairie, LA+2.1%+3.8%+3.9%
9Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA+1.8%+3.5%+2.5%
10Lake Charles, LA+1.7%+2.8%+3.0%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Louisiana row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2