Property Tax in Livingston Parish, Louisiana

What the Livingston Parish numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Livingston Parish homeowners pay more than $1,079 a year and half pay less. The exact bill for any one home depends on its assessed value, exemptions, and which school, municipal and special districts cover it.

Set against the median home value of $218,900, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 0.49%. That rate is an estimate computed from the two medians — no county publishes a rate calculated this way — but it adjusts for home prices, which makes comparisons between counties more meaningful.

Livingston Parish by the numbers

*Estimate derived from Census medians (tax ÷ value), not an official rate.

Livingston Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #13 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #11 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #9 of 64 (145,583 residents)
• Population density rank: #9 of 64 (225 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #32 of 64 (648 sq mi, 1.5% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $90; per $1,000 of home value: $0.49

How Livingston Parish compares

Of the 64 Louisiana counties with published data, 12 have a higher median property tax bill than Livingston Parish's $1,079, putting the county at #13 in the state. Its bill is about 6% lower than the state median of $1,146 and about 64% 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 0.49%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #11 within Louisiana.

Some extra context for Livingston Parish: the median bill works out to about $90 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $493 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 145,583 people — the #9 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 648 square miles, a density of about 225 people per square mile. Its median home value, $218,900, ranks #11 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 2265 record a higher median tax bill than Livingston Parish — it sits in the top 72% nationally. The county holds roughly 3.2% of Louisiana's people. Its homes are worth more than the state norm (median $218,900 versus $208,700), and a decade at the derived rate of 0.49% adds up to about 4.93% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, West Carroll Parish, medians $199 — $880 less than Livingston Parish per year.

Counties nearest Livingston Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Livingston Parish and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Livingston Parish in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Livingston Parish ($1,079) ranks the lowest by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Randolph County, North Carolina (145,322 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,236 on a median home value of $171,600 — $157 less than Livingston Parish pays.

Staying within Louisiana, the counties nearest Livingston Parish by population are Calcasieu Parish (208,668 residents, median tax $926 on a median value of $208,500); Ouachita Parish (158,916 residents, median tax $1,016 on a median value of $183,000); Tangipahoa Parish (135,218 residents, median tax $887 on a median value of $204,600); Bossier Parish (129,134 residents, median tax $1,380 on a median value of $215,100). The spread in their median bills — all under the same state framework — shows how much of the property tax burden is decided county by county and district by district.

How the tax is worked out

Think of the final bill as three ingredients: the assessed value of the property, the exemptions subtracted from it, and the combined rate of every district the property sits in. Livingston Parish's medians imply a derived rate of 0.49%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $1,972 a year, or around $164 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Livingston Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.49% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Livingston 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 Livingston Parish

If your bill looks wrong, work through these steps:

1. Get your property record card from the assessor and check the basics — living area, lot size, bedrooms, condition, and any exemptions you should have.
2. Compare your assessed value with recent sale prices of similar homes in Livingston Parish.
3. Talk to the assessor's office informally first; clear errors are often fixed without a hearing.
4. If needed, file a formal appeal with the local review board before the deadline on your assessment notice, with your evidence attached.
5. Keep paying the bill as issued while the appeal runs, unless your notice says otherwise — unpaid taxes accrue penalties regardless of an appeal.

More Louisiana counties

• Tangipahoa Parish, LA — $887
• Ouachita Parish, LA — $1,016
• Bossier Parish, LA — $1,380
• Ascension Parish, LA — $1,419
• Rapides Parish, LA — $1,024
• Terrebonne Parish, LA — $852

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