Best PlacesBayou Blue, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bayou Blue, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Bayou Blue ranks 38,180th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. State infrastructure pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on a stable housing market.
The best neighborhoods in Bayou Blue
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.
Bayou Blue's strengths and weaknesses
Where Bayou Blue ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 88% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 87% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 114 pleasant days a year, better than 76% of towns
Where Bayou Blue ranks low
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 10% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bayou Blue
A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bayou Blue home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $65,673, 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 Bayou Blue's effective rate of 0.52%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Bayou Blue
Bayou Blue runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bayou Blue.
Who works in Bayou Blue, and how
Work in Bayou Blue centers on construction and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Bayou Blue
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bayou Blue.
What the weather is like in Bayou Blue, month by month
Bayou Blue sees roughly 114 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 54° | 45° |
| April | 78° | 69° | 61° |
| July | 90° | 82° | 75° |
| October | 82° | 72° | 63° |
Flying in and out of Bayou Blue
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International sits about 35 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 Bayou Blue
Schools across Bayou Blue average a C+, better than 46% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Bourg Elementary SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Coteau-bayou Blue Elementary SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Schriever Elementary SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Top middle schools
- Houma Junior High SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Bayou Blue Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Evergreen Junior High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top high schools
- Central Lafourche High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Terrebonne High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolC · 32% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bayou Blue school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bayou Blue 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 Bayou Blue against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bayou Blue
Is Bayou Blue a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bayou Blue ranks 38,180th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, few empty homes, and cell coverage, and lowest on state infrastructure and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bayou Blue expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $197,945. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $65,673 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Bayou Blue safe?
Bayou Blue is safer than 55% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $390 per resident a year.
Compare Bayou Blue with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bayou Blue. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bayou Blue 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.
Bayou Blue detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bayou Blue: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bayou Blue: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bayou Blue: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bayou Blue: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bayou Blue 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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