CadeLA
A town of 1,710, settled in 1919.
Is Cade a good place to live?
Cade’s best subject grade is an A− for incomes; its weakest is a D for walkability. On incomes, just 14 of Louisiana’s 250 towns do better. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Only 18 of Louisiana’s 252 towns score lower on walkability. Only 1 of Louisiana’s 254 towns score lower on history. Cade has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
98% of working residents leave Cade for work
Where Cade’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Cade grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Cade is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Cade: who provides what
Cade is unincorporated, so St. Martin Parish and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Cade.
Hurricanes leads a very high hazard risk in Cade
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.7 jobs for every working resident, most of Cade’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Cade for work: only 2% work in town. 6% of residents live below the poverty line in Cade, against 20% in Louisiana’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. The average trip to work in Cade is 29 minutes.
| Cade | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $73,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Cade is less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns
Cade beats the Louisiana average on 12 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 17% of adults worry about having enough food in Cade, where Louisiana’s towns sit at 26% and U.S. towns at 14%. 41% of adults have high blood pressure in Cade.
| Cade | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 26% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 44% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 34% | 25% |
| What stands out | Cade | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 17.3% | 22.5% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 14% | 18.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Cade has mild winters and hot summers
Cade has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Cade’s July high is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Cade | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Cade sell for about $154K
82% of Cade households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lake Peigneur and 3 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cade. Close and well known come first.
12 mi Stadium & arenaCajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium
13 mi GardenJungle Gardens
5 mi MuseumLongfellow-Evangeline State Historic SitePhoto credits
Cajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium: Jcarriere, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jungle Gardens: Skb8721, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site: Mike (msm62166), CC BY 2.0
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Everything we know about Cade
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Cade
About 6 of every 100 Cade residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Louisiana.
Cade’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Cade.
Cade has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Cade reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Cade with a neighbor →
Questions about Cade
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cade, LA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $205,000, 4% below the Louisiana typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.