Property Tax in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

What the Lafourche Parish numbers mean

Read the two medians together: $951 is the middle tax bill among owner-occupied households in Lafourche Parish, and $190,800 is the middle home value. Neither figure describes a specific property — together they describe the typical homeowner's situation in the county.

The derived effective rate for Lafourche Parish is 0.50% (median tax ÷ median value). Treat it as an estimate for comparison only: it comes from survey medians of different households, not from the county's rate schedule.

The key figures for Lafourche Parish

For context, the Louisiana medians are $1,146 of tax on $208,700 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Lafourche Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #19 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #19 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #15 of 64 (96,670 residents)
• Population density rank: #20 of 64 (91 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #8 of 64 (1,067 sq mi, 2.5% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $79; per $1,000 of home value: $0.50

How Lafourche Parish compares

Of the 64 Louisiana counties with published data, 18 have a higher median property tax bill than Lafourche Parish's $951, putting the county at #19 in the state. Its bill is about 17% lower than the state median of $1,146 and about 68% lower than the national median of $2,969.

Rates and values pull in opposite directions: an expensive housing market can produce big bills at ordinary rates. Here the derived rate is 0.50%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #19 within Louisiana.

Some extra context for Lafourche Parish: the median bill works out to about $79 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $498 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 96,670 people — the #15 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 1,067 square miles, a density of about 91 people per square mile. Its median home value, $190,800, ranks #19 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 2437 record a higher median tax bill than Lafourche Parish — it sits in the top 78% nationally. The county holds roughly 2.1% of Louisiana's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $190,800 versus $208,700), and a decade at the derived rate of 0.50% adds up to about 4.98% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, West Carroll Parish, medians $199 — $752 less than Lafourche Parish per year.

Counties nearest Lafourche Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Lafourche Parish and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Lafourche Parish in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Lafourche Parish ($951) ranks the lowest by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Suffolk city, Virginia (96,638 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $3,073 on a median home value of $329,600 — $2,122 less than Lafourche Parish pays.

Inside Louisiana itself, the counties closest to Lafourche Parish in population are Rapides Parish (128,470 residents, median tax $1,024 on a median value of $179,100); Terrebonne Parish (107,362 residents, median tax $852 on a median value of $189,100); St. Landry Parish (82,128 residents, median tax $425 on a median value of $142,900); Iberia Parish (69,194 residents, median tax $547 on a median value of $156,000). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

How the tax is worked out

The bill is built in stages. First the assessor puts a market value on the property. Exemptions — a homestead exemption above all — then reduce the taxable amount. Finally the combined local rate is applied. To see the scale: at the county's derived rate of 0.50%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $498 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $1,992. Real bills use the official assessment and district rates, not this derived figure, so treat the example as a sense of scale only.

Illustrative bills in Lafourche Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.50% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Lafourche Parish — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.55% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Lafourche Parish

Believe your assessment is too high? The practical order of attack is: obtain your record card and audit it line by line; collect comparable recent sales in Lafourche Parish; ask the assessor's office to correct anything plainly wrong; and, if the value still seems off, lodge a formal appeal ahead of the deadline printed on your assessment notice. Windows are short — often 30 to 90 days — and late appeals are usually rejected outright, however strong the case.

More Louisiana counties

• Terrebonne Parish, LA — $852
• St. Landry Parish, LA — $425
• Iberia Parish, LA — $547
• Rapides Parish, LA — $1,024
• Ascension Parish, LA — $1,419
• Bossier Parish, LA — $1,380

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