Best PlacesManifest, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Manifest, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Manifest ranks 47,453rd 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 Manifest
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.
Manifest's strengths and weaknesses
Where Manifest ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- QuietBetter than 93% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 82% of towns
Where Manifest ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- School gradeD, better than only 5% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Manifest
A household needs to earn about $26,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Manifest home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $63,423, 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 Manifest's effective rate of 0.12%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Manifest
Manifest 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 Manifest.
Who works in Manifest, and how
Work in Manifest centers on retail trade and mining & oil & gas. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Manifest
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Manifest.
What the weather is like in Manifest, month by month
Manifest sees roughly 86 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 62, with lows near 39. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 62° | 49° | 39° |
| April | 79° | 66° | 55° |
| July | 94° | 82° | 73° |
| October | 83° | 67° | 56° |
Flying in and out of Manifest
The nearest airport, Alexandria International, is about 44 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 155 miles away.
The best schools in and around Manifest
Schools across Manifest average a D, better than 5% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Jonesville Elementary SchoolD− · 15% proficient
Top high schools
- Block High SchoolD− · 13% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Manifest school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Manifest 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 Manifest against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Manifest
Is Manifest a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Manifest ranks 47,453rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, a stable housing market, and tree cover, 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 Manifest expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $111,000. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $63,423 median income, cost of living beats 35% of towns.
Is Manifest safe?
Manifest is safer than 4% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $895 per resident a year.
Compare Manifest with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Manifest. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Manifest 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.
Manifest detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Manifest: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Manifest: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Manifest: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Manifest: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Manifest 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.