2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Lafayette, LA vs New Albany, OH

#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 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#2 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#3 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#3 Failure To Lunch

#6 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#7 Gloomiest Places in America

#7 America’s Manliest Cities

#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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

#10 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#11 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#11 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#11 Most Energetic Cities

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

#13 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#13 America's Top Hygge Cities

#14 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#16 Hypertension Hot Spots

#18 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#19 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#21 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#21 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#22 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#24 Best Block Party Places

#24 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#26 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#26 America’s Least Manly Cities

#27 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#29 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#31 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#32 The Most Single Cities

#37 2005 High Gas Prices

#37 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 Best Baseball Cities

#39 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#42 America's Most Playful Cities

#43 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#45 Healthiest Cities

#56 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#57 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#75 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#94 2005 Best Places to Live

#147 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

Love it here. The school is great, our house is massive. My husband got a sweet gig a A+F so the kids are always looking  More

We lived in New Albany for 5 years before moving to Florida. I can't express how much we miss it and we're considering moving back. New Albany is a very safe city with  More

I'm from Dayton and moved to Westerville for college. I then bought my first place in New Albany about 2 years ago. This is the best decision I've made. I'd love to  More