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Home appreciation in Lake Charles, LA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Lake Charles, LA grew an average of 2.8% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+1.7%

2025 over 2024. Louisiana: +3.0%.

5-year, per year

+2.8%

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

10-year, per year

+3.0%

+34.0% in total since 2015. Louisiana: +3.6%.

How does your home compare?

Lake Charles, LA home prices rose 34.0% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +12.7% to +48.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Lake Charles, LA compares with Louisiana

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

Index, 2005 = 100

Lake Charles, LA and Louisiana, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearLake Charles, LALouisiana
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101102
2005 Q3104104
2005 Q4107108
2006 Q1109111
2006 Q2114114
2006 Q3116116
2006 Q4118118
2007 Q1119119
2007 Q2120120
2007 Q3123121
2007 Q4122122
2008 Q1124122
2008 Q2124122
2008 Q3125120
2008 Q4123120
2009 Q1126122
2009 Q2127121
2009 Q3125119
2009 Q4125120
2010 Q1124119
2010 Q2125118
2010 Q3125119
2010 Q4125119
2011 Q1127117
2011 Q2124117
2011 Q3123117
2011 Q4125119
2012 Q1124118
2012 Q2123118
2012 Q3127120
2012 Q4127120
2013 Q1126120
2013 Q2129120
2013 Q3130121
2013 Q4129121
2014 Q1133121
2014 Q2134123
2014 Q3137125
2014 Q4137125
2015 Q1138126
2015 Q2139128
2015 Q3143129
2015 Q4144129
2016 Q1144130
2016 Q2150132
2016 Q3150133
2016 Q4152134
2017 Q1151133
2017 Q2153135
2017 Q3153137
2017 Q4154137
2018 Q1158137
2018 Q2157138
2018 Q3158138
2018 Q4157139
2019 Q1160140
2019 Q2161141
2019 Q3160142
2019 Q4163143
2020 Q1164145
2020 Q2165146
2020 Q3163147
2020 Q4165149
2021 Q1169151
2021 Q2170155
2021 Q3177160
2021 Q4180164
2022 Q1181168
2022 Q2193176
2022 Q3190176
2022 Q4190175
2023 Q1187174
2023 Q2191176
2023 Q3183175
2023 Q4187174
2024 Q1191177
2024 Q2185178
2024 Q3184178
2024 Q4183179
2025 Q1187180
2025 Q2186182
2025 Q3194184
2025 Q4189186
2026 Q1194185
2026 Q2200188

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Five-year and ten-year growth rates were similar, at +3.0% a year over ten years and +34.0% in total, suggesting a similar pattern over both periods.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 1.4% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2006 at +11.1%, and the weakest was 2023 at -0.8%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +1.7%, against +3.0% for the state.

ZIP codes in Lake Charles, LA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +12.7% in 70601 to +48.3% in 70633, while the metro as a whole rose 34.0%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 70633+48.3%
  2. 70607+33.5%
  3. 70647+31.4%
  4. 70663+30.5%
  5. 70665+30.3%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 70601+12.7%
  2. 70669+25.9%
  3. 70546+26.0%
  4. 70605+26.4%
  5. 70611+27.6%
ZIP codes in Lake Charles, 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.
70633+1.8%+4.3%+4.0%+48.3%
70607-11.8%+2.5%+2.9%+33.5%
70647-5.3%+2.8%+2.8%+31.4%
70663+0.3%+2.5%+2.7%+30.5%
70665-1.9%+1.9%+2.7%+30.3%
70611+0.8%+2.3%+2.5%+27.6%
70605+2.1%+2.4%+2.4%+26.4%
70546-0.4%+3.1%+2.3%+26.0%
70669-3.6%+2.0%+2.3%+25.9%
70601-11.0%-0.8%+1.2%+12.7%

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.

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Year by year

Annual house price index for Lake Charles, 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
2006111.1+11.1%110.9
2007117.4+5.7%116.6
2008120.3+2.5%117.0
2009122.1+1.5%116.6
2010121.2-0.7%114.9
2011121.10.0%113.6
2012121.6+0.4%115.1
2013124.8+2.6%116.6
2014131.4+5.3%119.3
2015136.9+4.2%123.8
2016144.7+5.7%128.1
2017148.6+2.7%131.1
2018152.9+2.9%133.3
2019156.3+2.2%137.1
2020159.6+2.1%142.0
2021168.9+5.9%152.4
2022183.0+8.3%167.8
2023181.5-0.8%169.2
2024180.5-0.6%171.8
2025183.5+1.7%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