Best PlacesPoint Blue, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Point Blue, 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.
Point Blue ranks 45,271st 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 Point Blue
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.
Point Blue's strengths and weaknesses
Where Point Blue ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 97% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 95% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 91% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 75% of towns
- QuietBetter than 75% of towns
Where Point Blue ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 2% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Short commute38.9 minutes each way, better than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Point Blue
A household needs to earn about $41,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Point Blue home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $56,156, 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 Point Blue's effective rate of 0.24%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Point Blue
Point Blue runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Point Blue.
Who works in Point Blue, and how
Work in Point Blue centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 94%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Point Blue
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Point Blue.
What the weather is like in Point Blue, month by month
Point Blue sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 62, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 62° | 50° | 42° |
| April | 78° | 67° | 58° |
| July | 91° | 81° | 73° |
| October | 82° | 69° | 59° |
Flying in and out of Point Blue
The nearest airport, Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field, is about 35 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 129 miles away.
The best schools in and around Point Blue
Schools across Point Blue average a C−, better than 20% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- James Stephens Montessori SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top high schools
- Mamou High SchoolD+ · 24% proficient
- Ville Platte High SchoolD · 21% proficient
- Northwest High SchoolD− · 13% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Point Blue school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Point Blue 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 Point Blue against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Point Blue
Is Point Blue a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Point Blue ranks 45,271st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, fast internet, and few empty homes, 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 Point Blue expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $167,956. The overall cost of living runs about 25% below the national average. Set against a $56,156 median income, cost of living beats 36% of towns.
Is Point Blue safe?
Point Blue is safer than 10% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $757 per resident a year.
Compare Point Blue with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Point Blue. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Point Blue 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.
Point Blue detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Point Blue: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Point Blue: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Point Blue: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Point Blue: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Point Blue 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.