Everything else equal, we can all agree that living in a cheaper place is better than living in a more expensive place.
I’d much rather pay $500/mo in rent than $1,000. And I’d rather pay $2 for coffee than $5.
And while every neighborhood in Shreveport might be more expensive than living in rural Louisiana, there are certain neighborhoods that are definitely cheaper.
What exactly are those Shreveport neighborhoods where your dollar goes a little further — you can get that one bedroom instead of the studio?
Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and determine which neighborhoods in Shreveport are the cheapest using Saturday Night Science.
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Methodology: How we determined the cheapest Shreveport hoods in 2026
To rank the cheapest places to live in Shreveport, we had to determine what criteria define “cheap” and then apply Saturday Night Science.
Using Census and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:
- Overall Cost Of Living
- Rent To Income Ratio
- Median Home Value To Income Ratio
We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 18 in each category, where 1 was the cheapest.
Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a cheap neighborhood index.
And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest cheapest neighborhood index, the “Cheapest City Neighborhood In Shreveport.” We’re lookin’ at you, Ceder Grove-Lynbrook.
We updated this article for 2026. Skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city, from cheapest to most expensive.
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Detailed list of the cheapest neighborhoods to live in Shreveport for 2026
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| Rank | Neighborhood | Cost Of Living Index |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ceder Grove-Lynbrook | 82 |
| 2 | Allendale-Lakeside | 77 |
| 3 | Queensborough | 83 |
| 4 | Freestate-North Highlands | 84 |
| 5 | Martin Luther King | 78 |
| 5 | Sunset Arcre-Garden Valley-Morningside | 83 |
| 7 | Hyde Park Brookwood-Southern Hills | 87 |
| 8 | Caddo Heights-South Highlands | 90 |
| 8 | Western Hills And Yarborough | 90 |
| 10 | Airport-Pines Road | 88 |
| 11 | Broadmoor-Anderson Island-Shreve Isle | 92 |
| 12 | Downtown Riverfront | 78 |
| 13 | Highland-Stoner Hill | 84 |
| 14 | Springlake-University Terrace | 101 |
| 14 | Ellerbe Woods | 118 |
| 16 | Country Club Hills-Lakeshore Shopping | 84 |
| 17 | Jenkins-Pinecroft | 91 |
| 18 | Mooretown And Hollywood Heights | 84 |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024. All 18 Shreveport neighborhoods.
Summary
Summary: Lowest cost places to live in Shreveport
If you’re measuring the neighborhoods in Shreveport where prices are low, and it’s cheap to live, this is an accurate list.
The most affordable neighborhoods in Shreveport are Ceder Grove-Lynbrook, Allendale-Lakeside, Queensborough, Freestate-North Highlands, Martin Luther King, Sunset Arcre-Garden Valley-Morningside, Hyde Park Brookwood-Southern Hills, Caddo Heights-South Highlands, Western Hills And Yarborough, and Airport-Pines Road.
As mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in Shreveport aren’t all cheap. Mooretown And Hollywood Heights takes the title of the most expensive neighborhood to live in Shreveport.
We ranked the neighborhoods from cheapest to most expensive in the chart below. Not sold on Louisiana? Take the two-minute Find Your Place quiz and see which state actually fits you.
Questions and answers
Cheapest Neighborhoods In Shreveport FAQs
What is the cheapest neighborhood in Shreveport?
Ceder Grove-Lynbrook is the cheapest neighborhood in Shreveport for 2026. It posts the best combination of overall cost of living, rent against income, and home prices against income. Allendale-Lakeside and Queensborough are next.
What are the cheapest neighborhoods in Shreveport?
The cheapest neighborhoods in Shreveport are Ceder Grove-Lynbrook, Allendale-Lakeside, Queensborough, Freestate-North Highlands, Martin Luther King, Sunset Arcre-Garden Valley-Morningside, Hyde Park Brookwood-Southern Hills, Caddo Heights-South Highlands, Western Hills And Yarborough, and Airport-Pines Road. We ranked all 18 neighborhoods in the city.
How do you decide which neighborhoods are cheapest?
Three measures: an overall cost of living index, rent-to-income, and home-value-to-income, all from Census tract data. Scoring costs against local incomes keeps one luxury tower from skewing the math.
Is a cheap neighborhood a bad neighborhood?
Not necessarily — this ranking measures what things cost relative to income, nothing else. Check our safest neighborhoods in Shreveport ranking before you sign a lease, because cheap and safe are separate questions.
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Shreveport?
Mooretown And Hollywood Heights lands at the expensive end of the 18 neighborhoods we scored. If your budget disagrees with it, the rest of the list runs cheaper.
