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What can you afford in Louisiana?
A baseline estimate for a household earning $96,000 a year gross, with typical debts and expenses, a $40,000 down payment, and a 740-759 credit score — using Louisiana's own property tax and insurance data rather than a national average. Every assumption is editable in the full calculator below.
Louisiana's effective property tax rate is around 0.52% of home value per year — the 7th lowest in the country. Average homeowner's insurance runs near $7,300/year on a $300,000 home — the 2nd highest and a state where premiums have been rising quickly due to weather- and insurer-availability pressure.
Comfortable
$270,058
Stretch
$313,028
Risky ceiling
$338,810
This baseline's own budget can sustain at least as much as a lender's debt-to-income ceiling allows in Louisiana — the DTI ratio, not the household budget, is what limits the number here.
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