Best PlacesFreetown, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Freetown, 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.
Freetown ranks 50,261st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Freetown
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.
Freetown's strengths and weaknesses
Where Freetown ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 184 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 87% of towns
- Cheap childcare$637 a month, better than 75% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 51% of towns
Where Freetown ranks low
- Health outlookBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Freetown
A household needs to earn about $37,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Freetown home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $52,961, 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 a national 0.90% effective rate, since no local rate is published, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Freetown
Freetown runs younger than the country, 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 Freetown.
Who works in Freetown, and how
Work in Freetown centers on health care & social and wholesale trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 76%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Freetown
The coast is about 26 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Freetown, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Freetown, month by month
Freetown sees roughly 184 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 46. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 53° | 46° |
| April | 77° | 70° | 64° |
| July | 89° | 83° | 78° |
| October | 81° | 72° | 66° |
Flying in and out of Freetown
The nearest airport, Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field, is about 34 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 86 miles away.
The best schools in and around Freetown
Schools across Freetown average a D, better than 6% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Raintree Elementary SchoolD · 16% proficient
Top middle schools
- B. Edward Boudreaux Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- West St. Mary High SchoolD− · 15% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Freetown school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Freetown 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 Freetown against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Freetown
Is Freetown a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Freetown ranks 50,261st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, the weather, and a stable housing market, and lowest on health outcomes and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Freetown expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $138,700. The overall cost of living runs about 24% below the national average. Set against a $52,961 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Freetown safe?
Freetown is safer than 1% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,181 per resident a year.
Compare Freetown with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Freetown. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Freetown 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.
Freetown detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Freetown: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Freetown: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Freetown: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Freetown: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Freetown 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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