Louisiana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Ouachita Parish Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Ouachita Parish pays $1,054 a year, an effective rate of 0.54%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,054
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.54%
- Effective rate · Low rate
- -47%
- vs U.S. average
- #15 of 64
- rank in LA
The verdict
Homeowners in Ouachita Parish pay a median $1,054 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.54%, more affordable than 79% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,054
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.54%
- Effective rate on median home
- #659 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -47%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($194,400). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Louisiana. Population: 158,480. Owner-occupied homes: 37,489.
The median annual property tax in Ouachita Parish is $1,054, which is 11% lower than the Louisiana state average and 47% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.54% on a median home value of $194,400. Property taxes represent 1.9% of the median household income in this county.
Ouachita Parish's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish pay a median annual property tax of $1,054, well below the national median and notably lower than the Louisiana state median. On a $194,400 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
Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.9% of the $54,688 median household income.
Decision signal 5
The latest release moved the bill up
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has ticked up 3.7%, from $1,016 to $1,054. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Ouachita 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.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 64% from $644 to $1,054. 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: 12,572 of 37,489 owner-occupied homes (33.5%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Both sides of this comparison sit low: household income here is in the bottom quarter of US counties, and so is the effective tax rate. The median bill works out at 1.9% of median household income, which is the arithmetic of a modest levy on modest earnings rather than of any deliberate relief.
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
28.0% of Ouachita Parish homes owned free and clear (4,927 of 17,566) report no property tax at all, against 14.9% 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 Ouachita Parish Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Ouachita Parish homeowners, 12,572 of 37,489 owner-occupied homes (33.5%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 33.5% (12,572)
- $800 to $1,499 17.4% (6,534)
- $1,500 to $1,999 8.7% (3,263)
- $2,000 to $2,999 10.7% (4,004)
- $3,000 or more 8.6% (3,227)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
7,889 homes here (21.0%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how Louisiana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Ouachita Parish pay more than double the bill of those without one (+72%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Ouachita Parish's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Ouachita Parish's effective rate is higher than 77% of the 64 counties in Louisiana - ranking #15 of 64.
Where Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish moved from $644 in the 2020 release to $1,054 in 2024, a change of about 64%. 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.
Ouachita Parish vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Ouachita Parish | Louisiana Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Low rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 1.9% | - | - |
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.
Ouachita Parish is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Louisiana counties.
Ouachita Parish rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,054 +3.7% | 0.54% |
| 2023 | $1,016 +15.7% | 0.56% |
| 2022 | $878 +10.9% | 0.51% |
| 2021 | $792 +23.0% | 0.51% |
| 2020 | $644 | 0.43% |
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.
Ouachita Parish: tax takes only 1.9% of income
Counties near Ouachita Parish's effective rate
On effective rate, Ouachita Parish sits nearest Robertson County (KY), Cumberland County (KY), Caldwell County (KY).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Valley County (MT), Chowan County (NC), Brooks County (TX).
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
Ouachita Parish: only 4% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 2,590 of 64,990 returns from Ouachita Parish reported real estate taxes, averaging $3,176 - 36% of those reporters sat in the $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.
Other Counties in Louisiana
Ouachita Parish rate FAQs
- Are property taxes increasing in Ouachita Parish?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Ouachita Parish is recorded at $1,054 in the 2024 5-year release against $644 in 2020. That is a large swing, and it should be read as movement in a survey estimate rather than as a tax change: the median here rests on about 37,489 owner-occupied homes, and swings above 50% are roughly twelve times more common in the smallest counties than in the largest. Treat the two figures as imprecise and check the county assessor for actual rate changes.
- How does Ouachita Parish property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish, Louisiana?
- The median annual property tax in Ouachita Parish is $1,054, an effective rate of 0.54% on a $194,400 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Ouachita Parish?
- Ouachita Parish, Louisiana scores C+ (63/100) 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 rate relief at B+ (0.54%). 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.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Ouachita Parish?
- Property taxes in Ouachita Parish run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.9% of the $54,688 median household income.
What to do with Ouachita Parish's QUIET rate
Ouachita Parish's $1,054 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 1.9% of Ouachita Parish's $54,688 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Ouachita 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: $1,054/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Ouachita Parish
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Ouachita Parish (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Dade County, MO
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,055/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.62% vs Ouachita Parish 0.54%.
Jones County, MS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,053/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.74% vs Ouachita Parish 0.54%.
Mason County, KY
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,055/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.65% vs Ouachita Parish 0.54%.
Garfield County, MT
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,052/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.62% vs Ouachita Parish 0.54%.
Louisiana county set
State ACS overview for every published Louisiana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.