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

If you invest in or around New Iberia, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what New Iberia sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 200
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $169,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $109
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $125,000 and $237,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 200 closed sales in New Iberia over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $169,000. 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 $125,000 and $237,500. 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. 94% of the New Iberia 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 199 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $75 and $130 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in New Iberia, LA (September 2026)

The median home price in New Iberia is $169,000, measured across the 200 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $125,000 and $237,500.

Where New Iberia sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in New Iberia 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 $125,000 and $237,500. Among the 28 Louisiana markets with a published band, New Iberia's middle-half spread ($125,000 to $237,500) ranks 18th 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 25 days, across 177 New Iberia closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 173 New Iberia closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The New Iberia angle

Thin data is the defining constraint in New Iberia. With few closings, every filter you apply costs you comps you may need. Relax criteria deliberately rather than all at once, and keep a record of the order, because the order is what makes the estimate reviewable. Give any lone comp sitting far from the others a second look before keeping it, since a single sale moves the picture more here than it would elsewhere. Treat $169,000 as indicative, not as a fallback answer. The band is not symmetric around $169,000: the stretch up to $237,500 is longer than the stretch down to $125,000. A comp set that drifts above the midpoint spans more price than an equal drift below it, so check where your comps sit before you trust the answer.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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 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 New Iberia address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: New Iberia, LA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2254035
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 200
Median sold price: $169,000
Median sold $/sqft: $109 (199 qualifying)
Property mix: 94% 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.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in New Iberia over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.