Best PlacesPride, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pride, 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.
Pride ranks 23,540th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Car insurance costs pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on civic engagement.
The best neighborhoods in Pride
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.
Pride's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pride ranks high
- Voter turnoutBetter than 89% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 86% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 86% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 84% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 81% of towns
Where Pride ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pride
A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pride home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $90,257, 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 Pride's effective rate of 0.55%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Pride
Pride runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Pride.
Who works in Pride, and how
Work in Pride centers on public administration and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 92%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Pride
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Pride.
What the weather is like in Pride, month by month
Pride sees roughly 107 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 52° | 43° |
| April | 80° | 69° | 59° |
| July | 93° | 82° | 75° |
| October | 84° | 71° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Pride
The nearest airport, Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Field, is about 11 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 62 miles away.
The best schools in and around Pride
Schools across Pride average a C+, better than 52% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Central Intermediate SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- North Live Oak Elementary SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Northeast Elementary SchoolF · 10% proficient
Top middle schools
- Live Oak Junior HighB+ · 48% proficient
- Central Middle SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top high schools
- Live Oak High SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
- Liberty High SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Central High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pride school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pride 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 Pride against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pride
Is Pride a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pride ranks 23,540th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, health care access, and a strong job 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 Pride expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $214,654. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $90,257 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Pride safe?
Yes, Pride is safer than 58% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $366 per resident a year.
Compare Pride with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pride. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pride 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.
Pride detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pride: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pride: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pride: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pride: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pride 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.