Best PlacesCaddo Parish, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Caddo Parish, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Caddo Parish ranks 2,689th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on state infrastructure and car insurance costs. It does better on transit, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in Caddo 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 Caddo Parish
The parts of Caddo 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.
Shreveport
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and more adults hold degrees.
Keithville & Greenwood
Fewer homes sit empty and it is quieter.
Blanchard, Vivian & Mooringsport
Tree cover is thicker, though biking is worse.
Caddo Parish shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 1% of the country and others in the top 4%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Caddo Parish's strengths and weaknesses
Caddo Parish ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Transit, biking, and fast internet carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: state infrastructure, car insurance costs, and air quality all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Caddo Parish ranks high
- TransitBetter than 93% of counties
- BikingBetter than 83% of counties
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of counties
- Cell coverageBetter than 79% of counties
- Disaster safetyBetter than 78% of counties
Where Caddo Parish ranks low
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of counties
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of counties
- Air qualityBetter than only 6% of counties
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of counties
- QuietBetter than only 7% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Caddo Parish
A household needs to earn about $48,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Caddo Parish home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $59,860, 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 Caddo Parish's effective rate of 0.61%, 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 Caddo Parish
Caddo Parish's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Caddo Parish.
Who works in Caddo Parish, and how
Work in Caddo Parish centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Caddo Parish
Caddo Parish has more parkland per resident than 71% of counties. That concentrates in some parts of Caddo Parish and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Caddo Parish growing, and who is moving in?
Caddo Parish has lost about 11% of its population 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 Caddo Parish go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Caddo Parish, month by month
Caddo Parish sees roughly 85 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 48° | 38° |
| April | 80° | 67° | 55° |
| July | 96° | 84° | 75° |
| October | 83° | 69° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Caddo Parish
The nearest airport, Shreveport Regional, is about 2 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas Love Field, about 179 miles away.
The best schools in and around Caddo Parish
Schools across Caddo Parish average a C−, better than 30% of counties.
Top elementary schools
- South Highlands Elementary Magnet SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- Eden Gardens Fundamental Elementary SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
- Fairfield Magnet SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
Top middle schools
- Caddo Parish Middle Magnet SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
- Benton Intermediate SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Benton Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- Caddo Parish Magnet High SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- Benton High SchoolB+ · 54% proficient
- C.e. Byrd High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Caddo Parish school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Caddo 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 Caddo Parish against the other 3,143 counties.
Who Caddo 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 Caddo Parish
Is Caddo Parish a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Caddo Parish ranks 2,689th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on transit, biking, and fast internet, 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 Caddo Parish expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $187,321. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $59,860 median income, cost of living beats 28% of counties.
Is Caddo Parish safe?
Caddo Parish is safer than 6% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $849 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Caddo Parish?
July highs average about 96 degrees, and January highs near 61 with lows near 38. That works out to about 85 pleasant days a year, more than 45% of counties.
What are the best neighborhoods in Caddo Parish?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Shreveport, Keithville & Greenwood, and Blanchard, Vivian & Mooringsport. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Caddo Parish good for families?
Schools beat 30% of counties, crime safety beats 6%, and childcare runs $732 a month.
Is Caddo Parish good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 28% of counties, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 82% of counties. About 8% of workers already work from home.
Compare Caddo Parish with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Caddo Parish. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Caddo 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.
Caddo Parish detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Caddo Parish: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Caddo Parish: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Caddo Parish: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Caddo Parish: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Caddo 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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