Best PlacesTerrebonne Parish, LA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Terrebonne Parish, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Terrebonne Parish ranks 2,549th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on disaster risk and state infrastructure. It does better on low property taxes, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in Terrebonne Parish
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.
The best areas in Terrebonne Parish
The parts of Terrebonne Parish, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.
Houma
More adults hold degrees, incomes run higher, and health care is easier to reach.
Gray, Schriever & Thibodaux
It is noisier and fewer households have young kids.
Bayou Cane
Scores close to Gray, Schriever & Thibodaux, except that streets are more walkable here.
Bourg
Commutes are shorter, though local pay stretches less far.
Chauvin & Montegut
Prices have run up less, though fewer residents vote.
Scores across Terrebonne Parish run from about the 2nd to the 77th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Terrebonne Parish's strengths and weaknesses
Terrebonne Parish ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Low property taxes, cell coverage, and a stable housing market carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: disaster risk, state infrastructure, and car insurance costs all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Terrebonne Parish ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 92% of counties
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of counties
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 92% of counties
- Internet speedBetter than 83% of counties
- Nice weatherabout 114 pleasant days a year, better than 70% of counties
Where Terrebonne Parish ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of counties
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of counties
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of counties
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of counties
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 17% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Terrebonne Parish
A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Terrebonne Parish home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $67,862, 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 Terrebonne Parish's effective rate of 0.38%, 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 Terrebonne Parish
Terrebonne Parish's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Terrebonne Parish.
Who works in Terrebonne Parish, and how
Work in Terrebonne Parish centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 94%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Terrebonne Parish
Terrebonne Parish has less parkland per resident than most counties. That concentrates in some parts of Terrebonne Parish and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Terrebonne Parish growing, and who is moving in?
Terrebonne Parish has lost about 8% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Houma, LA metro.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Terrebonne Parish go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Terrebonne Parish, month by month
Terrebonne Parish sees roughly 114 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 54° | 45° |
| April | 78° | 69° | 61° |
| July | 90° | 82° | 75° |
| October | 82° | 72° | 63° |
Flying in and out of Terrebonne Parish
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International sits about 39 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.2 million passengers in 2025, with 112 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Terrebonne Parish
Schools across Terrebonne Parish average a C, better than 39% of counties.
Top elementary schools
- Bourg Elementary SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Mulberry Elementary SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Dularge Elementary SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- Montegut Middle SchoolB · 44% proficient
- Houma Junior High SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Lacache Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- South Terrebonne High SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
- Terrebonne High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolC · 32% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Terrebonne Parish school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Terrebonne Parish 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 Terrebonne Parish against the other 3,143 counties.
Who Terrebonne Parish suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 4% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Terrebonne Parish
Is Terrebonne Parish a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Terrebonne Parish ranks 2,549th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on low property taxes, cell coverage, and a stable housing market, and lowest on disaster risk and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Terrebonne Parish expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $201,070. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $67,862 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.
Is Terrebonne Parish safe?
Terrebonne Parish is safer than 29% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $522 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Terrebonne Parish?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 64 with lows near 45. That works out to about 114 pleasant days a year, more than 70% of counties.
What are the best neighborhoods in Terrebonne Parish?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Houma, Gray, Schriever & Thibodaux, and Bayou Cane. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Terrebonne Parish good for families?
Schools beat 39% of counties, crime safety beats 29%, and childcare runs $699 a month.
Is Terrebonne Parish good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 50% of counties, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 83% of counties. About 4% of workers already work from home.
Compare Terrebonne Parish with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Terrebonne Parish. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Terrebonne Parish 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.
Terrebonne Parish detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Terrebonne Parish: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Terrebonne Parish: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Terrebonne Parish: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Terrebonne Parish: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Terrebonne Parish 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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