Best PlacesJeanerette, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Jeanerette, 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.
Jeanerette ranks 49,221st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Jeanerette
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.
Jeanerette's strengths and weaknesses
Where Jeanerette ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 96% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 91% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of towns
- BikingBetter than 81% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 75% of towns
Where Jeanerette ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Jeanerette
A household needs to earn about $33,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Jeanerette home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $54,824, 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 Jeanerette's effective rate of 0.28%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Jeanerette
Jeanerette runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Jeanerette.
Who works in Jeanerette, and how
Work in Jeanerette centers on health care & social and hospitality & food. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Jeanerette
The coast is about 40 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Jeanerette, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Jeanerette, month by month
Jeanerette sees roughly 103 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 53° | 44° |
| April | 80° | 69° | 60° |
| July | 92° | 82° | 75° |
| October | 84° | 71° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Jeanerette
The nearest airport, Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field, is about 27 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 85 miles away.
The best schools in and around Jeanerette
Schools across Jeanerette average a D, better than 5% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Caneview Elementary SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
- Belle Place Elementary SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
- Park Elementary SchoolD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Belle Place Middle SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Anderson Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- B. Edward Boudreaux Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- New Iberia Senior High SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
- Westgate High SchoolD · 22% proficient
- Franklin Senior High SchoolD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Jeanerette school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Jeanerette 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 Jeanerette against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Jeanerette
Is Jeanerette a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Jeanerette ranks 49,221st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, walkability, and a stable housing market, and lowest on car insurance costs and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Jeanerette expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $136,087. The overall cost of living runs about 24% below the national average. Set against a $54,824 median income, cost of living beats 35% of towns.
Is Jeanerette safe?
Jeanerette is safer than 5% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $921 per resident a year.
Compare Jeanerette with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Jeanerette. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Jeanerette 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.
Jeanerette detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Jeanerette: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Jeanerette: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Jeanerette: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Jeanerette: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Jeanerette 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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