DeRidder LA Real Estate LLC
142 Jodie Williams Road, Suite DRE | DeRidder, LA, 70634About
DeRidder LA Real Estate, LLC is a full service real estate brokerage serving DeRidder, Leesville, and Fort Polk, Louisiana.
DeRidder, Louisiana, is the government seat of Beauregard Parish, named after the Confederate General Beauregard. The city of DeRidder lies near the border with Texas and has a population of 10,758, according to 2012 data. It is named after a Belgian woman named Ella DeRidder Dehouyen, the sister-in-law of Jan Dehouyen, a Dutch coffee merchant who raised the $3 million needed to build a railroad from Kansas City to the Gulf. When asked to name the area along the railroad that is now DeRidder, Dehouyen chose to honor his sister-in-law.
DeRidder was incorporated in 1903. Though it is small in population, it is about 45 miles from Lake Charles (population close to 72,000) and 117 miles from Shreveport (population more than 200,000). The cost of living in DeRidder is lower than the U.S. average, and the median real estate value is $149,900.
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