The story of this market
The typical home in Shreveport, Louisiana sells for about $190,000, or $118 per square foot.
Prices are down 8.3% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 44 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,400 a month.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+0.5%
LA · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport's residential real estate market remains an accessible, buyer-leaning environment characterized by low price-to-rent entry points and elevated days on market. Median single-family sale prices float near $190,000, while demographic outmigration and state property insurance challenges act as moderating counterweights to overall capital appreciation.
No ARED county foreclosure postings attributed to Shreveport yet — the verified ledger covers every county the foreclosure ingest has read, attributed by published city area. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Deterministic aggregate of 12 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Median prices moved down 1.1% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 106 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
1% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0.2% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 5.4% · poverty 23.8% — a mixed stability profile.
- Altitude Trampoline Park4.53.6 mi
- Surge Entertainment by Drew Brees4.12.8 mi
- Adventure Fun Park4.46.7 mi
- Chuck E. Cheese4.13.6 mi
- Escape SBC4.93.1 mi
- Brookshire Grocery Arena4.55.6 mi
- Shreveport Aquarium4.40.5 mi
- Shreveport Convention Center4.50.2 mi
- Golden Corral Buffet & Grill4.15.5 mi
- Shreveport Municipal Auditorium4.50.4 mi
- Cinemark Shreveport South Tinseltown and XD4.46.4 mi
- Shreveport Aquarium4.40.5 mi
- Duck Pond4.53.7 mi
- Sci-Port Discovery Center4.30.6 mi
- Shreveport Municipal Auditorium4.50.4 mi
- Sci-Port Discovery Center4.30.6 mi
- R.W. Norton Art Gallery4.73.8 mi
- Louisiana State Exhibit Museum4.83 mi
- Barksdale Global Power Museum4.44.1 mi
- Shreveport Water Works Museum4.80.5 mi
- Duck Pond4.53.7 mi
- Betty Virginia Park4.63.1 mi
- Field of Dreams4.85.2 mi
- Red River National Wildlife Refuge4.76.5 mi
- North Bossier Park4.64.8 mi
- Red River South Marina & Resort4.511 mi
- Shreveport Yacht Club4.55.6 mi
- Chasing Aces4.70.9 mi
- Querbes Park Golf Course4.23 mi
- Southern Trace Country Club4.612.2 mi
- The Club at Huntington Park48.9 mi
- The Golf Club at StoneBridge46.3 mi
- Mall St. Vincent42.5 mi
- Louisiana Boardwalk4.40.8 mi
- Pierre Bossier Mall3.92.7 mi
- Ross Dress for Less4.15.1 mi
- T.J. Maxx4.35.3 mi
- Shreveport Regional Airport3.96 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
The amenity base that shapes daily life and property demand in this city — what residents actually live with, and what the pipeline is adding.
An 8,500-acre lake serving as the city's primary water supply and a hub for boating, fishing, and waterfront residential living.
Features an extensive permanent fine arts collection surrounded by 40 acres of landscaped botanical gardens and azalea trails.
Downtown destination alongside the Red River featuring marine life exhibits, walking paths, and civic event venues.
A 50,000-seat multi-purpose stadium home to the annual collegiate Independence Bowl game and regional sporting events.
Shreveport fits value-focused real estate investors seeking high initial gross yields, healthcare professionals connected to regional hospital networks, and local buyers taking advantage of high housing affordability and low initial entry barriers.
Caddo Parish Public Schools governs local public education, producing a wide divergence in school performance across the city. Elite magnet academies like Caddo Parish Magnet High rank among the top institutions in Louisiana, while numerous traditional neighborhood campuses perform well below state standards.
The city is strategically intersected by Interstate 20 running east-west and Interstate 49 heading south, complemented by the LA-3132 loop providing efficient city-wide beltway travel. Shreveport Transit Management (SporTran) operates municipal bus routes and on-demand mobility throughout the urban core, while Shreveport Regional Airport provides commercial air travel.
Shreveport offers extensive recreational outdoor access via Cross Lake, the Red River waterfront, and scenic green spaces like the R.W. Norton Art Gallery botanical gardens. Residents also utilize downtown riverfront entertainment amenities, regional parks, and casino gaming corridors.
The rental market displays solid depth and affordability, driven by strong workforce demand from healthcare complexes, colleges, and logistics centers. Rental yields can be attractive on lower-basis single-family homes, though investor margins must account for higher repair costs, aging housing stock, and selective tenant screening given poverty pressures.
Shreveport's economy operates as the regional hub for the Ark-La-Tex region, anchored by healthcare, higher education, government, and gaming industries. Major employers include Ochsner LSU Health, Willis-Knighton Health System, and regional retail distribution. Economic diversification into cyber, technology, and logistics is active, though broad wage and job growth metrics remain tempered compared to broader national averages.
Economic momentum centers on regional medical anchors like Ochsner LSU Health, healthcare systems, gaming and hospitality, and manufacturing. Public infrastructure revitalizations along Cross Bayou and the I-49 corridor provide long-term development catalysts amidst regional population declines.
Municipal planning agencies are directing resources toward downtown revitalization, blight mitigation, and industrial business park growth near airport facilities. Infill residential housing initiatives and capital improvement bonds focus on upgrading aging utility pipes, road resurfacing, and municipal stormwater infrastructure.
Parcels in Shreveport are subject to parish-level Caddo Parish assessments, Caddo School District millages, Caddo Levee District levies, and specific municipal service districts. Downtown properties may fall within Downtown Development Authority (DDA) improvement assessment boundaries.
Shreveport continues to struggle with high rates of violent and property crime, consistently reporting per-capita offenses significantly above state and national medians. Recent community-policing and analytical policing initiatives aim to curb gun violence, though safety concerns remain an active drag on select central and inner-ring neighborhoods.
Shreveport faces localized flash flooding near Cross Bayou and drainage tributaries, but avoids direct coastal surge exposure. Severe convective storms, tornadic activity, and rising homeowner insurance premiums across Louisiana represent the primary property hazard burdens.
Louisiana's property insurance market has faced significant premium inflation across recent seasons, driven by statewide storm claims and reinsurer pullbacks. While Shreveport avoids coastal surge risks, homeowners face rising wind, hail, and convective storm coverage expenses that impact overall housing affordability.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. Federal (United States (federal)) — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Superfund Liens: Establishes a statutory federal lien upon the parcel running in favor of the United States for all unrecovered cleanup costs, damages, and statutory interest incurred by the EPA. Rate and formula: Direct Dollar-for-Dollar Reimbursement (Lien Amount = Incurred Response Costs + Administrative Costs + Federal (United States (federal)) — Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) Withholding: Imposes an affirmative withholding tax obligation on the transferee (buyer) to withhold and remit tax on the gross amount realized (gross sales price). The statutory base withholding rate is 15% of the total purchase price (Formula: Tax = Amount Realized × 15%). Exemptions and reductions: (1) 0% wit Federal (United States (federal)) — Federal General Tax Lien Encumbrance: Under IRC § 6321, a statutory lien arises automatically as of the date of assessment and attaches to all real property owned or acquired by the taxpayer.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this city — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Researched annual trajectory for this city, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 2.4%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this city's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 3.8%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Retrieved from Census Bureau ACS 1-year place data profiles and Census Reporter profile 16000US2270000.
Public schools whose reported address is in this area (NCES). Not attendance boundaries — schools that serve residents may sit outside it. Check the district's address locator for assignment.