Taxes & Insurance in Sulphur
Sulphur carries a genuinely low 0.44% Calcasieu Parish property tax rate alongside the single most elevated disclosed insurance costs of any market in this Louisiana batch.
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Learn moreA genuinely low property tax rate, with a real 2026 reduction
Calcasieu Parish's own effective property tax rate (0.44%, TaxByCounty) runs below Louisiana's statewide average, and the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury voted to reduce two parishwide levies (Library and Mosquito Control) for the 2026 tax year.
Louisiana's flat 3% income tax, funded by a high sales tax
Louisiana's real, current flat 3% individual income tax (effective Jan. 1, 2025) applies in Sulphur exactly as statewide, funded in part by a sales-tax increase that pushed Sulphur's own combined rate to 10.75%.
The highest disclosed insurance costs in this batch
Lake Charles-area homeowners-insurance rates spiked directly after Hurricanes Laura and Delta, running $4,500-$6,000/year or more per this pass's sources -- toward the upper end of Louisiana's own real, severe statewide $4,644-$7,304/year range, and the single most elevated figure across this four-city batch.
Key takeaways
- Sulphur's 0.44% Calcasieu Parish property tax rate runs genuinely below the Louisiana statewide average.
- Louisiana's real flat 3% income tax applies here as statewide, alongside a real, high 10.75% combined sales tax.
- Lake Charles-area insurance costs ($4,500-$6,000+/year) are the highest disclosed in this batch, a direct consequence of 2020's Laura and Delta.
- Confirm current, address-specific tax and insurance figures directly for any target property.
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