Hammond, LA Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

In a market the size of Hammond, individual sales move the needle. The figures below rest on 149 tracked closings over the last 12 months, so read them as the direction of the market rather than a precise price for any one street.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 149
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $235,000 (low-volume sample)
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $128
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $145,000 and $325,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 149 closed sales in Hammond over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $235,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $145,000 and $325,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 91% of the Hammond closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 149 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $103 and $155 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Hammond, LA (October 2026)

The median home price in Hammond is $235,000, measured across the 149 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $145,000 and $325,000.

Where Hammond sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Hammond over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $145,000 and $325,000. Among the 28 Louisiana markets with a published band, Hammond's middle-half spread ($145,000 to $325,000) ranks 22nd from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 31 days, across 85 Hammond closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 60 Hammond closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Hammond angle

Trust it for orientation. $235,000 sits nearer to more of the market here than it would in a spread out city, so it is a fair first reference and a fair way to test whether a quoted price is in the region of reasonable. Then move past it. With 149 closings, a modest sample, you can filter to property type and a size window and price the subject from what actually closed.

From market read to offer price

A thin market punishes generic pricing; the way to firm up a number here is the specific property and its handful of true comps. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Louisiana: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Louisiana homes, and most Louisiana estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Louisiana one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Hammond address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Hammond, LA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2232755
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 149
Median sold price: $235,000
Median sold $/sqft: $128 (149 qualifying)
Property mix: 91% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records. This is a low-volume sample: treat the statistics as directional rather than precise estimates of the entire local market.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Hammond over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. This is a low-volume market: the figures below rest on 149 closings within the Hammond city limits, so treat the median as indicative rather than precise.