Jackson Parish, Louisiana Eviction Risk: Low

Jackson Parish scores 2.7/10 (Low risk) across its 7 cities, placing it in the middle third of Louisiana parishes, with 33 parishes carrying higher risk and 30 carrying less. For landlords evaluating north-central Louisiana eviction laws markets, that average reflects genuinely modest eviction pressure, a renter share of 47.9%, and an average rent of $722 per month. The operating environment is workable, though a poverty rate of 35.3% warrants careful tenant screening given the income constraints many renters face.

The intra-county score range runs from 2.1 to 2.8, a spread of 0.7 points across a parish with a total population of just 6,487. That gap matters: a landlord operating in the parish seat faces meaningfully different conditions than one in a small outlying community, even though both fall in the Low tier. Rent burden averages 30.5% of income countywide, a figure that tracks closely with nearby peers such as Franklin Parish (2.75/10) and Union Parish (2.68/10).

The cities inside Jackson Parish

Jonesboro, the parish seat and largest city at 4,063 residents, shares the highest local score of 2.8/10 with North Hodge (493 people) and Quitman (321 people). All three sit at the top of the parish risk range, meaning landlords there face slightly more exposure on dimensions like local poverty and rent burden than elsewhere in the parish. Chatham (2.7/10, pop. 534) and East Hodge (2.7/10, pop. 273) sit at the parish average. Hodge comes in at 2.6/10.

The clear outlier on the low end is Eros, which scores 2.1/10, the only city in Jackson Parish meaningfully below the county average. With a population of just 206, Eros is a small market, but its score suggests the most landlord-favorable conditions in the parish. The takeaway for investors: risk is hyper-local here, and city-level data should drive underwriting decisions rather than the parish average alone.

State-level laws that apply here

Landlords operating in Jackson Parish are governed by Louisiana state law, primarily La. R.S. § 9:3251 et seq. (Louisiana Lease Law). For non-payment of rent or a lease violation, the required notice period is 5 days. A no-cause termination at end of term requires 30 days notice. Louisiana does not require just cause for eviction and state law preempts any local rent control, so there is no rent cap applicable in Jackson Parish. The Louisiana eviction process, from notice through court judgment, runs 14 to 30 days for uncontested cases and 30 to 90 days for contested ones.

On the cost side, the Louisiana eviction costs a landlord can expect include a court filing fee of $170 to $300, a sheriff lockout fee of $50 to $175, and attorney fees ranging from $500 to $3,000. Source of income is not a protected class under state law. Landlords should also be aware that Louisiana security deposit limits and Louisiana tenant protections are governed at the state level, with habitability obligations set out under La. Civ. Code art. 2696. These rules apply uniformly across every city in the parish.

With a poverty rate of 35.3% and nearly half of residents renting (47.9%), the financial pressure on tenants in Jackson Parish is real; the city grid above breaks down how that translates into specific risk scores for each of the 7 communities so investors can target the right submarkets.