Louisiana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Lafourche Parish Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Lafourche Parish pays $1,038 a year, an effective rate of 0.54%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,038
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.54%
- Effective rate · Low rate
- -48%
- vs U.S. average
- #15 of 64
- rank in LA
The verdict
Homeowners in Lafourche Parish pay a median $1,038 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.54%, more affordable than 79% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,038
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.54%
- Effective rate on median home
- #659 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -48%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($193,900). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Louisiana. Population: 96,252. Owner-occupied homes: 30,164.
The median annual property tax in Lafourche Parish is $1,038, which is 12% lower than the Louisiana state average and 48% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.54% on a median home value of $193,900. Property taxes represent 1.6% of the median household income in this county.
Lafourche Parish's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Lafourche Parish's 0.54% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 79%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Lafourche Parish pay a median annual property tax of $1,038, well below the national median and notably lower than the Louisiana state median. On a $193,900 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.54% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Low among Louisiana counties by effective rate
Lafourche Parish ranks #15 of 64 counties in Louisiana by effective rate (77% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Lafourche Parish run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.6% of the $63,135 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Lafourche Parish as reported to the Census Bureau; your parcel can differ. Not tax, legal, or financial advice: check the county assessor or a qualified professional before decisions that depend on these numbers.
The rate held while the market moved
Lafourche Parish sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 15.7% up, against a median home value that rose 22.1%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill rose 41.2%, from $735 to $1,038.
Effective rate is the published median bill divided by the published median home value, so the two multiply back to the bill exactly; the rate's movement here is derived from those two figures rather than read from the rounded published rate. Both are ACS 5-year survey estimates for the median owner-occupied household, compared across non-overlapping releases. They describe what the Census published, not a local policy, assessment, or exemption change.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 41% from $735 to $1,038. These ACS medians describe the reported change; they do not identify whether a levy, assessment, home value, or change in the responding households caused it.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 9,543 of 30,164 owner-occupied homes (31.6%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Household income sits in the second quarter nationally and the effective rate in the lowest, so the median bill takes 1.6% of median household income. Both figures point the same way, which is unusual enough that the ratio above is worth reading rather than assumed.
The share above is the median annual bill divided by median household income, a ratio of two county-level medians rather than a household-by-household figure.
Paying off the mortgage changes the picture here
39.9% of Lafourche Parish homes owned free and clear (6,653 of 16,681) report no property tax at all, against 16.5% of homes still carrying a mortgage. A reported zero is not proof of an exemption: it can equally mean a bill paid by another party, or a reporting artefact. But a gap this size is where age- and disability-based relief usually shows up, because those programmes reach owners who have finished paying.
What Lafourche Parish Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Lafourche Parish homeowners, 9,543 of 30,164 owner-occupied homes (31.6%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 31.6% (9,543)
- $800 to $1,499 13.3% (4,013)
- $1,500 to $1,999 8.3% (2,515)
- $2,000 to $2,999 11.0% (3,305)
- $3,000 or more 6.3% (1,915)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
8,873 homes here (29.4%) report no real estate tax at all, an unusually large share, high enough that the median bill above describes a minority of Lafourche Parish homeowners. Exemptions are set by state: how Louisiana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Lafourche Parish pay more than double the bill of those without one (+92%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Lafourche Parish's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Lafourche Parish's effective rate is higher than 77% of the 64 counties in Louisiana - ranking #15 of 64.
Where Lafourche Parish sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.54% Among the most affordable more affordable than 79% of 3,135 U.S. counties
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Lafourche Parish moved from $735 in the 2020 release to $1,038 in 2024, a change of about 41%. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates compared across releases that share only one sample year, which is why this page never compares consecutive releases: those overlap in four years of the same households and move mostly on sampling.
Lafourche Parish vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Lafourche Parish | Louisiana Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Low rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.6% | - | - |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates. Tax-burden differences across rows reflect millage decisions, assessment-ratio practices, and the residential-vs-commercial mix of each tax base.
Lafourche Parish is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Louisiana counties.
Lafourche Parish rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,038 +9.1% | 0.54% |
| 2023 | $951 +11.4% | 0.50% |
| 2022 | $854 +8.5% | 0.48% |
| 2021 | $787 +7.1% | 0.49% |
| 2020 | $735 | 0.46% |
Each row is a separate ACS 5-year release, and consecutive releases share four of their five survey years. The percentage beside each bill is therefore movement in the published estimate against the previous release, not a single year's tax change. The two releases largely describe the same households. For change over time, compare releases that do not overlap.
Lafourche Parish: tax takes only 1.6% of income
Counties near Lafourche Parish's effective rate
On effective rate, Lafourche Parish sits nearest Robertson County (KY), Cumberland County (KY), Caldwell County (KY).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Rabun County (GA), Morgan County (UT), Colbert County (AL).
How peers are chosen
These are the nearest cross-state matches in the published Census data, not neighboring counties or recommendations. Peers are rebuilt with each data release; see the calculation method.
Similar effective rates
Similar published median-tax changes, 2020–2024
Lafourche Parish: only 2% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 950 of 39,640 returns from Lafourche Parish reported real estate taxes, averaging $4,016 - 37% of those reporters sat in the $100-200k AGI band.
What this IRS county file does not say
Amounts are reported before the SALT cap, not deducted; the share is of filers, not homeowners. Source: IRS SOI county data, tax year 2022.
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Lafourche Parish rate FAQs
- How does Lafourche Parish property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Lafourche Parish run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.54% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana?
- The median annual property tax in Lafourche Parish is $1,038, an effective rate of 0.54% on a $193,900 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Lafourche Parish?
- Lafourche Parish, Louisiana scores B- (66/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 5 Census ACS dimensions (effective rate, bill size, income share, mortgage gap, and home-value/income). Its strongest scored dimension here is income room at B+ (1.6%). The score compares published county medians to U.S. percentiles, it is not a personal bill and not advice to buy, sell, appeal, or relocate.
- Are property taxes increasing in Lafourche Parish?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Lafourche Parish jumped 41.2% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $735 to $1,038, a 4-year span. These are survey estimates covering five years each, so this compares the two releases furthest apart rather than consecutive ones, which overlap and would mostly measure the same households twice.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Lafourche Parish?
- Property taxes in Lafourche Parish run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.6% of the $63,135 median household income.
What to do with Lafourche Parish's QUIET rate
Lafourche Parish's $1,038 median bill sits well below the U.S. median - still size a parcel estimate; local millage and exemptions move the real bill. Estimate your bill →
Income burden is light here: about 1.6% of Lafourche Parish's $63,135 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Lafourche Parish's QUIET effective rate, then a disjoint out-of-state bill set so the two neighborhoods stay distinct.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.54%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,038/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Lafourche Parish
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Lafourche Parish (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Hickman County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Lafourche Parish at $1,038/yr; rate 0.46% vs Lafourche Parish 0.54%.
Lincoln County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Lafourche Parish at $1,038/yr; rate 0.45% vs Lafourche Parish 0.54%.
Bates County, MO
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,039/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.61% vs Lafourche Parish 0.54%.
Delaware County, IN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,039/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.75% vs Lafourche Parish 0.54%.
Louisiana county set
State ACS overview for every published Louisiana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Lafourche Parish stamps QUIET · LIGHT - how assessed value and millage become the ACS median bill.
Data vintage and method
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
Property tax data reflects median amounts paid by homeowners. Effective rates are calculated as median tax divided by median home value.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, county median real-estate taxes · 2024 Lafourche Parish (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.