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Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you'll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they probably 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 3.14x the national median and household incomes are 2.49x the national median.
But where exactly in New Orleans do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Garden District where the median income is a cool $136,916.
Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in New Orleans out of 71 for 2021.
The Richest Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2021
What's the richest neighborhood to live in New Orleans for 2021? According to the most recent census data, Garden District looks to be the richest New Orleans neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $975,002. 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. Continue on to find where your neighborhood ranks amongst the richest in New Orleans. Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from richest to poorest.
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How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2021
Every city has it's 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 really 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 census and extrapolated BLS data, we ranked every neighborhood based on income levels.
We ranked every neighborhood in New Orleans by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Garden District, was named the richest neighborhood in New Orleans.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Iberville.
Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in New Orleans ranked.
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Detailed List Of The Richest Neighborhoods In New Orleans For 2021
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income< |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden District | $136,916 |
| 2 | Lakewood | $132,083 |
| 3 | Lake Terrace And Oaks | $116,810 |
| 4 | Lake Shore-Lake Vista | $115,905 |
| 5 | Audubon | $98,953 |
| 6 | Lakeview | $89,164 |
| 7 | New Aurora-English Turn | $76,446 |
| 8 | Uptown | $72,123 |
| 9 | Marlyville-Fontainebleau | $69,737 |
| 10 | French Quarter | $66,865 |
| 11 | Lower Garden District | $65,813 |
| 12 | Navarre | $65,049 |
| 13 | Fillmore | $62,306 |
| 14 | Lake Catherine | $61,250 |
| 15 | West End | $59,060 |
| 16 | Central Business District | $58,873 |
| 17 | Read Blvd East | $58,658 |
| 18 | Algeirs Point | $57,902 |
| 19 | Old Aurora | $57,192 |
| 20 | Touro | $56,858 |
| 21 | East Carollton | $56,848 |
| 22 | East Riverside | $53,862 |
| 23 | Irish Channel | $52,165 |
| 24 | West Riverside | $50,954 |
| 25 | Tall Timbers-Brechtel | $49,435 |
| 26 | Broadmoor | $47,766 |
| 27 | City Park | $46,964 |
| 28 | Black Pearl | $46,669 |
| 29 | Fairgrounds | $46,480 |
| 30 | Marigny | $45,730 |
| 31 | Gentilly Terrace | $43,834 |
| 32 | Bywater | $43,515 |
| 33 | Milneburg | $40,528 |
| 34 | Bayou Saint John | $40,102 |
| 35 | Gentilly Woods | $39,818 |
| 36 | Freret | $39,495 |
| 37 | Pontchartrain Park | $38,039 |
| 38 | Milan | $37,566 |
| 39 | Village De L'est | $37,209 |
| 40 | Saint Anthony | $36,796 |
| 41 | Dillard | $36,704 |
| 42 | Us Naval Base | $33,662 |
| 43 | Leonidas | $33,035 |
| 44 | Mid-City | $32,249 |
| 45 | Read Blvd West | $31,998 |
| 46 | Holy Cross | $31,850 |
| 47 | Little Woods | $29,104 |
| 48 | Whitney | $28,523 |
| 49 | Behrman | $28,509 |
| 50 | Mcdonogh | $27,985 |
| 51 | West Lake Forest | $26,270 |
| 52 | Saint Claude | $26,052 |
| 53 | Lower 9th Ward | $25,937 |
| 54 | Saint Thomas | $24,507 |
| 55 | Holly Grove | $24,190 |
| 56 | Central City | $24,007 |
| 57 | Treme' Lafitte | $23,894 |
| 58 | Saint Roch | $23,281 |
| 59 | Seventh Ward | $21,520 |
| 60 | Saint Bernard Area | $21,394 |
| 61 | Fischer Dev | $21,098 |
| 62 | Plum Orchard | $20,764 |
| 63 | Pines Village | $20,048 |
| 64 | Gert Town | $19,409 |
| 65 | Tulane-Gravier | $19,298 |
| 66 | Florida | $17,125 |
| 67 | Dixon | $16,628 |
| 68 | Desire | $16,345 |
| 69 | Viavant-Venetian Isles | $14,722 |
| 70 | Bw Cooper | $14,560 |
| 71 | Iberville | $9,046 |
