Best PlacesSorrel, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sorrel, 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.
Sorrel ranks 49,004th 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 Sorrel
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.
Sorrel's strengths and weaknesses
Where Sorrel ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 95% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 85% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 77% of towns
- Cheap childcare$637 a month, better than 75% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 103 pleasant days a year, better than 70% of towns
Where Sorrel ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 2% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Sorrel
A household needs to earn about $18,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sorrel home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $56,199, 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 Sorrel's effective rate of 0.28%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Sorrel
Sorrel runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Sorrel.
Who works in Sorrel, and how
Work in Sorrel centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Sorrel
The coast is about 38 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Sorrel, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Sorrel, month by month
Sorrel 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 Sorrel
The nearest airport, Lafayette Regional/Paul Fournet Field, is about 31 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 83 miles away.
The best schools in and around Sorrel
Schools across Sorrel average a D, better than 6% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- St. Charles Street Elementary SchoolD · 18% proficient
- Raintree Elementary SchoolD · 16% proficient
Top middle schools
- B. Edward Boudreaux Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- West St. Mary High SchoolD− · 15% proficient
- Jeanerette Senior High SchoolD− · 12% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Sorrel school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Sorrel 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 Sorrel against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Sorrel
Is Sorrel a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sorrel ranks 49,004th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, a stable housing market, and cell coverage, 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 Sorrel expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $76,016. The overall cost of living runs about 27% below the national average. Set against a $56,199 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Sorrel safe?
Sorrel is safer than 22% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $528 per resident a year.
Compare Sorrel with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sorrel. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sorrel 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.
Sorrel detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sorrel: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sorrel: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sorrel: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sorrel: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sorrel 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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