Best PlacesBossier Parish, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Bossier Parish, 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.
Bossier Parish ranks 1,795th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on transit and fast internet. The weaker spots are state infrastructure, car insurance costs, and air quality.
The best neighborhoods in Bossier Parish
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.
The best areas in Bossier Parish
The parts of Bossier Parish, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.
Benton
Incomes run higher, local pay stretches further, and fewer homes sit empty.
Bossier City
Tree cover is thinner and fewer residents vote.
Haughton
It is noisier and biking is worse.
Scores across Bossier Parish run from about the 1st to the 86th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Bossier Parish's strengths and weaknesses
Bossier Parish lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Transit, fast internet, and a strong job market carry most of that.
The one real hole is state infrastructure, near the bottom of the country. Car insurance costs and air quality also cost it ground. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Bossier Parish ranks high
- TransitBetter than 85% of counties
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of counties
- Local economyBetter than 78% of counties
- Cell coverageBetter than 77% of counties
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 75% of counties
Where Bossier Parish ranks low
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of counties
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of counties
- Air qualityBetter than only 5% of counties
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of counties
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 22% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Bossier Parish
A household needs to earn about $57,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bossier Parish home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $75,898, 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 Bossier Parish's effective rate of 0.63%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Bossier Parish
Bossier Parish runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bossier Parish.
Who works in Bossier Parish, and how
Work in Bossier Parish centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Bossier Parish
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bossier Parish.
Is Bossier Parish growing, and who is moving in?
Bossier Parish has grown about 5% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Shreveport, LA metro.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Bossier Parish go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Bossier Parish, month by month
Bossier Parish sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 59, with lows near 37. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 59° | 47° | 37° |
| April | 77° | 65° | 55° |
| July | 94° | 83° | 75° |
| October | 81° | 67° | 56° |
Flying in and out of Bossier Parish
The nearest airport, Shreveport Regional, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas Love Field, about 187 miles away.
The best schools in and around Bossier Parish
Schools across Bossier Parish average a C+, better than 53% of counties.
Top elementary schools
- Legacy Elementary SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Stockwell Place Elementary SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Kingston Elementary SchoolA · 62% proficient
Top middle schools
- Caddo Parish Middle Magnet SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
- Benton Intermediate SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Benton Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- Benton High SchoolB+ · 54% proficient
- Taylor High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Haughton High SchoolB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bossier Parish school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bossier Parish 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 Bossier Parish against the other 3,143 counties.
Who Bossier Parish suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 8% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Bossier Parish
Is Bossier Parish a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bossier Parish ranks 1,795th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on transit, fast internet, and a strong job market, and lowest on state infrastructure and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bossier Parish expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $224,060. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $75,898 median income, cost of living beats 56% of counties.
Is Bossier Parish safe?
Bossier Parish is safer than 31% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $534 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Bossier Parish?
July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 59 with lows near 37. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 40% of counties.
What are the best neighborhoods in Bossier Parish?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Benton, Bossier City, and Haughton. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Bossier Parish good for families?
Schools beat 53% of counties, crime safety beats 31%, and childcare runs $732 a month.
Is Bossier Parish good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 56% of counties, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 82% of counties. About 8% of workers already work from home.
Compare Bossier Parish with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bossier Parish. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bossier Parish 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.
Bossier Parish detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bossier Parish: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bossier Parish: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bossier Parish: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bossier Parish: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bossier Parish 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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