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The median home value in Ruston, LA is $229,937 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.54% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$229,937
Year-over-Year
+1.54%
Population
22,259
Ruston ranks #13 of 36 Louisiana cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 12.3% above the state's city median of $204,702. It sits in Lincoln Parish, where the county-wide median is $225,361.
Median household income in Ruston is $31,120, so the typical home value is about 7.4× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Ruston police recorded a violent crime rate of 427 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 2,956 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Ruston, that value is $229,937. That's up 1.54% from a year earlier. It is about 12.3% above the typical Louisiana city tracked here.
Homes in Ruston are more expensive than Lincoln Parish as a whole, where the median is $225,361 — a difference of about 2.0%.
Median household income here is $31,120, so the typical home value is about 7.4× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Ruston police reported 427 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 22,259. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.