Best PlacesFolsom, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Folsom, 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.
Folsom ranks 30,753rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Car insurance costs pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on what local pay buys.
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The best neighborhoods in Folsom
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.
Folsom's strengths and weaknesses
Where Folsom ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 64% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 74% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 67% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 64% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 91 pleasant days a year, better than 61% of towns
Where Folsom ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Short commute35.0 minutes each way, better than only 14% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Folsom
A household needs to earn about $77,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Folsom home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,919, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.7% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-08-20 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 Folsom's effective rate of 0.55%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Folsom
Folsom runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Folsom.
Who works in Folsom, and how
Work in Folsom centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Folsom
The coast is about 67 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Folsom, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Folsom, month by month
Folsom sees roughly 91 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 63, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63° | 51° | 42° |
| April | 79° | 67° | 57° |
| July | 92° | 81° | 73° |
| October | 82° | 69° | 59° |
Flying in and out of Folsom
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International sits about 42 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 Folsom
Schools across Folsom average a B−, better than 54% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Folsom Elementary SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
- Enon Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
Top middle schools
- Little Oak Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
- Madisonville Junior High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Folsom Junior High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top high schools
- Northshore High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Covington High SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Franklinton High SchoolC− · 27% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Folsom school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Folsom 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 Folsom against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Folsom
Is Folsom a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Folsom ranks 30,753rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, health care access, and walkability, and lowest on car insurance costs and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Folsom expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $303,202. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $80,919 median income, cost of living beats 64% of towns.
Is Folsom safe?
Folsom is safer than 54% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $365 per resident a year.
Compare Folsom with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Folsom. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Folsom 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.
Folsom detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Folsom: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Folsom: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Folsom: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Folsom: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Folsom 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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