Best PlacesHarahan, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Harahan, 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.
Harahan ranks 13,398th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Harahan
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.
Harahan's strengths and weaknesses
Where Harahan ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 96% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 93% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 92% of towns
Where Harahan ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Harahan
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Harahan home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $93,352, 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 Harahan's effective rate of 0.68%, 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 Harahan
Harahan runs older 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 Harahan.
Who works in Harahan, and how
Work in Harahan centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Harahan
Harahan has more restaurants and bars per resident than 89% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Harahan and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Harahan, month by month
Harahan sees roughly 108 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 66, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 66° | 55° | 45° |
| April | 81° | 71° | 61° |
| July | 94° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 84° | 74° | 65° |
Flying in and out of Harahan
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International sits about 5 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 Harahan
Schools across Harahan average a B, better than 78% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Airline Park Academy For Advanced StudiesA+ · 88% proficient
- Harahan SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
- Hazel Park/hilda Knoff SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top middle schools
- T.h. Harris Middle SchoolD− · 16% proficient
- Frederick Douglass Community SchoolF · 10% proficient
Top high schools
- Riverdale High SchoolB− · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Harahan school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Harahan 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 Harahan against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Harahan
Is Harahan a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Harahan ranks 13,398th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, walkability, and biking, and lowest on car insurance costs and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Harahan expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $349,240. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $93,352 median income, cost of living beats 69% of towns.
Is Harahan safe?
Yes, Harahan is safer than 75% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $286 per resident a year.
Compare Harahan with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Harahan. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Harahan 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.
Harahan detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Harahan: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Harahan: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Harahan: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Harahan: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Harahan 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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