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SheetLA-SHREVEPORT-LA · Shreveport, LA 183,483 pop · income 17th pct · 74 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Shreveport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Shreveport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Krebs · lowest
48,452
Krebs · lowest
48,452 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #1
Beaver Falls · near
48,462
Beaver Falls · near
48,462 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #2
Crossville · near
48,464
Crossville · near
48,464 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #3
Thomasville · near
48,464
Thomasville · near
48,464 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #4
Shreveport · this city
48,465
Shreveport · this city
48,465 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #5
Balsam Lake · near
48,468
Balsam Lake · near
48,468 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #6
Fort Lauderda… · highest
79,935
Fort Lauderda… · highest
79,935 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Shreveport on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 183,483.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Shreveport - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Shreveport lands in the 17th percentile for household income and the 3rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
17th
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
16th
percentile, median rent
3rd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Shreveport, LA
Shreveport is a mid-sized U.S. city in Louisiana, home to 183,483 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $48,465 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 18.4%. Typical homes in Shreveport are valued around $178,100, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. 27.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 213 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 29% from five years earlier. Shreveport's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 5219.0 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Shreveport's yearly average temperature at 66.6°F with 51.4 inches of precipitation per year and 0.9 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Louisiana run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Louisiana at 88.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,007 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $212 across Louisiana, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Shreveport report an average commute of 17.9 minutes, with 80.1% driving alone and 5.7% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 62.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Shreveport's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to schools and households to within-city variation to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Shreveport, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Shreveport?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 5219.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 129% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Shreveport growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -10,907 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 213 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Shreveport?
Within Louisiana, the closest population matches are Baton Rouge (223,699 residents, $49,944 income); Metairie (138,995 residents, $73,256 income); Lafayette (121,537 residents, $61,454 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Lauderdale, FL (183,032 residents); Chattanooga, TN (182,832 residents); Newport News, VA (184,774 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can 74 Census tracts reveal inside Shreveport?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 74 Census tracts to this city.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Shreveport?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 18.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$48,465
Home value
$178,100
Value / income
3.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Shreveport?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.6°F, with 51.4 inches of precipitation and 0.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Louisiana is 62.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
66.6°F
Annual precipitation
51.4 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
62.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Shreveport?
The NCES join finds 54 public schools within the city match. 27.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
54
Bachelor's degree+
27.5%
Poverty estimate
18.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Shreveport?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.9 minutes.
Public transit
1.3%
Work from home
5.7%
Drive alone
80.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 74,440 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
88.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$48,465
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
18.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
1,229 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Shreveport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 92/100 (A+) · 88.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.5%
Household income: 18/100 (F) · $48,465
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.4%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,229 /100k
Where Shreveport sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Shreveport's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Shreveport highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Shreveport, LA (this city): home $178,100, crime 5,219/100k
Chattanooga, TN : home $259,200, crime 4,766/100k
Newport News, VA : home $243,300, crime 3,152/100k
Mobile, AL : home $170,300, crime 2,427/100k
Tempe, AZ : home $421,900, crime 3,364/100k
Lafayette, LA : home $251,300, crime 5,414/100k
Lake Charles, LA : home $204,000, crime 3,083/100k
Kenner, LA : home $241,800, crime 3,178/100k
Bossier City, LA : home $192,300, crime 4,593/100k
How does Shreveport compare to other US cities?
Where Shreveport sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income17% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier than other cities
Median rent16% pricier than other cities
Safety3% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Louisiana and the picture shifts: Shreveport ranks #49 of 60 Louisiana cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Shreveport against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Louisiana only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Louisiana-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Shreveport near the bottom of Louisiana's cities
Among the 477 Louisiana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Shreveport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Shreveport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#232 of 426
46th percentile in Louisiana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 477
0th percentile in Louisiana
Median Home Value
#152 of 419
64th percentile in Louisiana
Poverty Rate
#193 of 475
59th percentile in Louisiana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#79 of 477
83rd percentile in Louisiana
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Louisiana only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
17th percentile nationally for median household income · 3rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Shreveport's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Shreveport's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Shreveport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$178,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Shreveport's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,630 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#260 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.7×, Shreveport sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,630 of 15,516 and #260 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$48,465Shreveport, LA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Shreveport, LA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Shreveport, LA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
183,483
Median Income
$48,465
Median Home Value
$178,100
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
18.4%
Labor force participation
51.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
5219.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1228.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3990.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.6°F
Annual Precipitation
51.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.9"
Schools
Total Schools
54
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Shreveport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
186,809 residents
2021
183,328 residents
2022
180,334 residents
2023
178,152 residents
2024
176,960 residents
2025
175,902 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
213
housing units authorized
Single-Family
213
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
300
300
0
$67.0M
2020
244
244
0
$61.2M
2021
218
218
0
$59.4M
2022
273
273
0
$88.8M
2023
175
168
7
$74.9M
2024
213
213
0
$69.5M
Permit volume decreased 29% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.9 minutes
Drive Alone
80.1%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
2.1%
Based on 74,440 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Louisiana statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $212
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Louisiana at $212 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Louisiana statewide averages, not a meter reading for Shreveport. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Louisiana's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.2 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Shreveport is $1,007/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Louisiana statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 62.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Louisiana statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Shreveport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Shreveport compares to similar-size Louisiana cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.