Property Tax in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

What the St. Landry Parish numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in St. Landry Parish pay more than $425, and half pay less. Your own bill is set by your home's assessed value, the exemptions you qualify for, and the local taxing districts your property sits in — so individual bills vary widely around the median.

Dividing the median tax by the median home value gives a derived effective rate of 0.30% for St. Landry Parish. It is an estimate built from two survey medians, not the county's official rate, but it is a fair way to compare the local tax burden with other counties where home values are very different.

St. Landry Parish by the numbers

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

St. Landry Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #46 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #37 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #16 of 64 (82,128 residents)
• Population density rank: #21 of 64 (89 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #11 of 64 (923 sq mi, 2.1% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $35; per $1,000 of home value: $0.30

How St. Landry Parish compares

The median tax bill in St. Landry Parish is about 63% lower than the state median ($1,146 for Louisiana) and about 86% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #46 out of 64 Louisiana counties with published Census data — 45 counties in the state have a higher median bill.

Comparisons cut both ways: a county can have a modest rate but high bills because homes are expensive, or a high rate but modest bills because homes are cheaper. St. Landry Parish's derived rate of 0.30% sits below the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for St. Landry Parish: the median bill works out to about $35 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $297 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 82,128 people — the #16 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 923 square miles, a density of about 89 people per square mile. Its median home value, $142,900, ranks #37 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Nationally, St. Landry Parish's median bill of $425 ranks #3062 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 98% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 1.8% of Louisiana's population, its median home value is about 32% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 2.97% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from St. Landry Parish to the most expensive county, Orleans Parish ($2,428), is $2,003 a year.

Counties nearest St. Landry Parish in the Louisiana ranking

St. Landry Parish and its population peers

Population is a useful lens on these figures, so the table below sets St. Landry Parish beside the counties closest to it in population anywhere in the country — communities of a similar scale operating under different state and local tax systems. Ranked by median tax paid within this peer group of 9, St. Landry Parish's $425 bill is the lowest.

The closest population match is Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (82,180 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,404 on a median home value of $208,300 — $979 less than St. Landry Parish pays.

Inside Louisiana itself, the counties closest to St. Landry Parish in population are Terrebonne Parish (107,362 residents, median tax $852 on a median value of $189,100); Lafourche Parish (96,670 residents, median tax $951 on a median value of $190,800); Iberia Parish (69,194 residents, median tax $547 on a median value of $156,000); Acadia Parish (57,218 residents, median tax $446 on a median value of $146,900). 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

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. St. Landry Parish's medians imply a derived rate of 0.30%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $1,188 a year, or around $99 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in St. Landry Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.30% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for St. Landry 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 St. Landry 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 St. Landry 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

• Iberia Parish, LA — $547
• Lafourche Parish, LA — $951
• Acadia Parish, LA — $446
• Vermilion Parish, LA — $538
• Terrebonne Parish, LA — $852
• St. Charles Parish, LA — $1,475

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