Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you’ll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they aren’t made of ticky-tacky, they are definitely made of money.
These are the wealthiest neighborhoods that New Orleans has to offer. Where houses go for over 3.52x the national median and household incomes are 3.23x the national median.
But where exactly in New Orleans do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Lakewood where the median income is a cool $177,607.
Here’s a look at the top 10 wealthiest neighborhoods in New Orleans out of 71 for 2024.
The Richest Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2024
What’s the richest neighborhood to live in New Orleans for 2024? According to the most recent census data, Lakewood looks to be the richest New Orleans neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $1,077,666. And that, my friend, is more 0s than most of us will see in our bank account for a long, long time — if we ever get that lucky.
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Richst Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2024 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakewood | $177,607 |
| 2 | Lake Shore-Lake Vista | $120,649 |
| 3 | Lake Terrace And Oaks | $118,576 |
| 4 | Lakeview | $115,696 |
| 5 | Audubon | $105,976 |
| 6 | Uptown | $100,032 |
| 7 | East Riverside | $92,052 |
| 8 | Lower Garden District | $83,093 |
| 9 | Marlyville-Fontainebleau | $82,700 |
| 10 | Touro | $81,285 |
| 11 | Irish Channel | $80,785 |
| 12 | Black Pearl | $79,701 |
| 13 | West Riverside | $79,431 |
| 14 | City Park | $78,471 |
| 15 | East Carollton | $77,204 |
| 16 | West End | $69,364 |
| 17 | Navarre | $68,593 |
| 18 | Algeirs Point | $65,622 |
| 19 | Garden District | $63,148 |
| 20 | French Quarter | $62,944 |
| 21 | Fillmore | $62,644 |
| 22 | Old Aurora | $62,243 |
| 23 | Marigny | $61,848 |
| 24 | Lake Catherine | $61,250 |
| 25 | Central Business District | $60,982 |
| 26 | Broadmoor | $59,622 |
| 27 | Freret | $59,532 |
| 28 | Read Blvd East | $58,658 |
| 29 | Gentilly Terrace | $58,412 |
| 30 | Tall Timbers-Brechtel | $58,312 |
| 31 | Fairgrounds | $57,860 |
| 32 | Mid-City | $55,538 |
| 33 | Bywater | $54,952 |
| 34 | Milan | $52,421 |
| 35 | Leonidas | $46,720 |
| 36 | Us Naval Base | $45,752 |
| 37 | Milneburg | $42,978 |
| 38 | Village De L’est | $42,923 |
| 39 | Whitney | $41,928 |
| 40 | Bayou Saint John | $40,102 |
| 41 | Holy Cross | $39,040 |
| 42 | Gentilly Woods | $37,011 |
| 43 | Saint Anthony | $36,796 |
| 44 | New Aurora-English Turn | $36,480 |
| 45 | Little Woods | $36,047 |
| 46 | Pontchartrain Park | $35,575 |
| 47 | Central City | $32,318 |
| 48 | Read Blvd West | $31,998 |
| 49 | Mcdonogh | $31,159 |
| 50 | Seventh Ward | $30,859 |
| 51 | Treme’ Lafitte | $29,668 |
| 52 | Lower 9th Ward | $28,535 |
| 53 | Behrman | $28,384 |
| 54 | Holly Grove | $28,373 |
| 55 | Saint Claude | $26,052 |
| 56 | Plum Orchard | $25,744 |
| 57 | Gert Town | $25,182 |
| 58 | Saint Thomas | $24,507 |
| 59 | West Lake Forest | $24,114 |
| 60 | Iberville | $23,610 |
| 61 | Saint Roch | $23,281 |
| 62 | Dillard | $23,199 |
| 63 | Tulane-Gravier | $22,516 |
| 64 | Pines Village | $22,383 |
| 65 | Saint Bernard Area | $21,394 |
| 66 | Dixon | $21,085 |
| 67 | Florida | $20,465 |
| 68 | Fischer Dev | $16,999 |
| 69 | Bw Cooper | $14,560 |
| 70 | Desire | $14,134 |
| 71 | Viavant-Venetian Isles | $11,128 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2024
Every city has its best neighborhoods — where everyone wants to live — and the worst neighborhoods — where no one wants to live. And then you have the wealthiest neighborhoods, where no one can afford to live.
And by no one, we mean you because there’s always someone richer than you.
How do you quantify richer than you? We looked at one simple criterion:
Which neighborhoods have the highest median income?
Using Saturday Night Science, we researched income data from the Census and BLS for every neighborhood in New Orleans.
We ranked every neighborhood in New Orleans by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Lakewood, was named the wealthiest neighborhood in New Orleans.
The richest neighborhoods in New Orleans are Lakewood, Lake Shore-Lake Vista, Lake Terrace And Oaks, Lakeview, Audubon, Uptown, East Riverside, Lower Garden District, Marlyville-Fontainebleau, and Touro.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Viavant-Venetian Isles.
The poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans are Viavant-Venetian Isles, Desire, BW Cooper, Fischer Dev, and Florida.
We updated this article for 2024. This is our tenth time ranking the most affluent neighborhoods to live in New Orleans.
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