Best PlacesAmelia, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Amelia, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Amelia ranks 47,886th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Amelia
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Amelia's strengths and weaknesses
Where Amelia ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 96% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 94% of towns
- Short commute18.4 minutes each way, better than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 89% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 80% of towns
Where Amelia ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Amelia
A household needs to earn about $22,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Amelia home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $58,803, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Amelia's effective rate of 0.31%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Amelia
Amelia runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Amelia.
Who works in Amelia, and how
Work in Amelia centers on construction and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 92%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Amelia
The coast is about 52 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Amelia, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Amelia, month by month
Amelia sees roughly 113 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 53° | 44° |
| April | 78° | 69° | 60° |
| July | 91° | 82° | 75° |
| October | 83° | 71° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Amelia
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International sits about 52 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.2 million passengers in 2025, with 112 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Amelia
Schools across Amelia average a D+, better than 17% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Stephensville Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Gibson Elementary SchoolC− · 27% proficient
- J.s. Aucoin Elementary SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Evergreen Junior High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Morgan City Junior High SchoolD+ · 26% proficient
- Belle Rose Middle SchoolD− · 13% proficient
Top high schools
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Morgan City High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Donaldsonville High SchoolD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Amelia school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Amelia measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Amelia against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Amelia
Is Amelia a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Amelia ranks 47,886th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, low property taxes, and short commutes, and lowest on disaster risk and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Amelia expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $91,916. The overall cost of living runs about 22% below the national average. Set against a $58,803 median income, cost of living beats 34% of towns.
Is Amelia safe?
Amelia is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $860 per resident a year.
Compare Amelia with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Amelia. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Amelia represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Amelia detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Amelia: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Amelia: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Amelia: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Amelia: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Amelia detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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