2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Lafayette, LA vs Abita Springs, LA

#44 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#70 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#297 2005 Best Places to Live

#312 Best Green Cities

#2 Best Block Party Places

#3 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#3 Most Congested Cities

#4 Sleepless Cities 2011

#5 The Most Single Cities

#9 Hurricane Hotspots

#11 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#13 Hypertension Hot Spots

#13 Best Baseball Cities

#15 Failure To Lunch

#16 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#16 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#17 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#17 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#20 America's Most Playful Cities

#20 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#22 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#22 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#25 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 America’s Manliest Cities

#31 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#31 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#33 America’s Least Manly Cities

#33 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#34 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#39 Gloomiest Places in America

#39 America's Top Hygge Cities

#45 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#46 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#46 Sleep in the City Study

#47 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#48 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#50 Healthiest Cities

#65 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#72 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#82 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#93 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#139 2005 Best Places to Live

#275 Best Green Cities

I should add this to my previous review. Lafayette was ranked "Happiest City in the US" by USA Today magazine and "Tastiest Town" by Southern  More

I’m from Florida but I’ve lived in the Lafayette area for thirty-five years. I’ve never known nicer people. It’s true that non-Cajuns can never integrate entirely with  More

What are the hottest neighborhoods to buy/live in right now? I'm from out of  More

It's the best place Ive ever lived. Beautiful peaceful, wonderful people, we like it just the way it is - small so don't move  More

You need to revisit your demographic numbers, as they cannot be accurate. I've scrolled through dozens of photos on the Abita Springs Elementary website only to see  More

Beautiful and historic. Small, but close to larger utopian suburbia. Wake up to the birds and squirrels, drive a couple of miles for excellent shopping. Great schools.  More