Best PlacesLouisville, CO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Louisville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Louisville ranks 894th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Louisville
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.
Louisville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Louisville ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of towns
Where Louisville ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,814 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 7% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 14% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Louisville
A household needs to earn about $232,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Louisville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $149,575, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Louisville's effective rate of 0.54%, 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 Louisville
Louisville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Louisville.
Who works in Louisville, and how
Work in Louisville centers on professional & technical and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 54%
- Work from home 40%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Louisville
Louisville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of towns and more parkland per resident than 98% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Louisville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Louisville, month by month
Louisville sees roughly 75 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 34° | 25° |
| April | 63° | 49° | 38° |
| July | 89° | 75° | 62° |
| October | 67° | 53° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Louisville
Denver International sits about 26 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 40.1 million passengers in 2025, with 250 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Louisville
Schools across Louisville average a B, better than 67% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Fireside Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Louisville Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Coal Creek Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Southern Hills Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Nevin Platt Middle SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Louisville Middle SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top high schools
- Monarch High SchoolA− · 66% proficient
- New Vista High SchoolB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Louisville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Louisville 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 Louisville against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Louisville suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 96% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 40% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Louisville
Is Louisville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Louisville ranks 894th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, population health, and an educated workforce, and lowest on childcare costs and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Louisville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $918,414. The overall cost of living runs about 11% above the national average. Set against a $149,575 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Louisville safe?
Louisville is safer than 51% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $413 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Louisville?
July highs average about 89 degrees, and January highs near 45 with lows near 25. That works out to about 75 pleasant days a year, more than 36% of towns.
Is Louisville good for families?
Schools beat 67% of towns, crime safety beats 51%, and childcare runs $1,814 a month.
Compare Louisville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Louisville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Louisville 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.
Louisville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Louisville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Louisville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Louisville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Louisville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Louisville 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.