Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 11,879 people, this town lies in Louisiana.
The weak point is health (D): residents are less healthy than 88% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Taken together, its subjects give Woodmere a D overall, better than just over a tenth of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 130th of 161 in Louisiana. It lags on hazard risk as well: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 95% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Its strongest is schools (B): its public schools beat 57% of Louisiana towns on state tests and graduation. At about $191K, a typical home costs 3.1 years of the New Orleans metro’s $63K median household income. St. Patrick's Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. The town’s January low is 44°F, above both Louisiana’s towns (42°F) and U.S. towns (22°F).
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · National Register of Historic Places · NOAA normals, 1991–2020.
Where Woodmere’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Woodmere is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
St. Patrick's Church is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 13,058 in 2000, 11,238 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 8 maps from 1891 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Woodmere. Close and well known come first.
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaCaesars Superdome
Big draw24 mi LakeLake Pontchartrain
7 mi MuseumNational World War II Museum707K visitors a year
in town National Historical ParkJean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve227K visitors a year
8 mi MuseumThe Cabildo
7 mi Zoo & aquariumAudubon ZooCaesars Superdome: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Pontchartrain: Mersh13, CC BY-SA 3.0 · National World War II Museum: Nolabob, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve: No machine-readable author provided. Jan Kronsell assumed (based on copyright cl, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Cabildo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Audubon Zoo: MeRyan, CC BY 2.0
Woodmere is unincorporated, so Jefferson 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Woodmere.
Woodmere has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, looks healthier within Louisiana than nationally and sends most of its workers to New Orleans and beyond.
Households in Woodmere have drawn federal disaster aid in 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2021. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 73% come from hurricanes and 15% from inland flooding. This Louisiana town has had 1,474 paid flood insurance claims since 1978.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The largest public high school is Jefferson RISE Charter School, with 764 students. Public schools: the Jefferson Parish school district. Two of its 4 schools are shown below, with the reason for each.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodmere SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 629 | D |
| Jefferson RISE Charter SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 764 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within LA on state tests and graduation
Within Louisiana it is healthier than 56% of the 161 graded towns: much of Louisiana scores lower on these measures.
Of 32 CDC measures, Woodmere beats the Louisiana average on 7 and trails it on 11. Woodmere: a fifth of adults report frequent mental distress. Only 9 of the 161 Louisiana towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Woodmere.
| Woodmere | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 48% | 42% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 37% | 33% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 12% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 48% | 43% | 35% |
| What stands out | Woodmere | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.8% | 7.5% |
| Fewer adults with depression | 21.8% | 26.6% |
| More adults facing housing insecurity | 24.5% | 16.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Woodmere has 1,168 jobs for its 4,543 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
The share of residents in Woodmere who live below the poverty line: 18%. Most people who work leave Woodmere to do it: just 2% work in town. In Woodmere, the typical journey to work is 29 minutes. Employers in Woodmere added 158 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,168.
| Woodmere | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 6.9% | 5.6% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
January nights average 44.4°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91°.
Snow is a rarity. For Woodmere, the peak summer temperature is 91°F.
| Woodmere | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 44°F | 42°F | 22°F |
| July high | 91°F | 92°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Woodmere’s trail network density comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile. 0.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Woodmere Playground, at 38 acres.
| Woodmere | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.1% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Woodmere Playground | 0.2 mi | 38 |
| 2. Woodmere Park | — | 18 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
70.8% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 54.8% across Louisiana. The median property tax bill is $535, against $1,180 across Louisiana, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Woodmere’s midpoint rent stands at $1,382 a month. 79% of households are owner-occupiers here. Also worth knowing: homes sold in Woodmere spent a median 34 days on the market.
| Woodmere | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 79% | 68% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,382 a month | $989 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
14 within 15 miles of the center of Woodmere
About 5 of every 100 Woodmere residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Louisiana.
Census-designated place in Louisiana, United States
Woodmere is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 12,080 at the 2010 census, and 11,238 at the 2020 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area.
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3 towns share a border with Woodmere.
| Town | LA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodmere | #130 | D | C+ | — | B | D |
| Belle Chasse | #18 | B | C− | — | A | B |
| Estelle | #126 | D | C+ | — | B | D |
| Harvey | #129 | D | C+ | — | B | D− |
Woodmere, Belle Chasse, Estelle and Harvey report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Woodmere with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Woodmere grades D overall, better than 12% of U.S. towns and #130 of 161 in Louisiana. It grades D for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
The typical home is worth about $191,000, 11% 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 C+.
