Town · Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Blanchard, Louisiana

Blanchard is a town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, part of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro area. It has 3,437 residents. Blanchard, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 10 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,132 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #114 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), primary care physicians (high) and pharmacies (high). It ranks worst on violent crime rate (high), mental health care shortage (high) and property crime rate (high).

10Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,132 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #114 of 262 in LA
Population: 3,437 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 991.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2207730

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety1#15,501/15,637
Economy24#11,828/15,631
Housing24#11,356/14,977
Health9#14,160/15,609
Healthcare61#6,094/15,650
Environment23#11,820/15,453
Education6#14,761/15,649
Infrastructure16#13,138/15,650
Community20#12,450/15,651
Leisure & amenities68#4,958/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Blanchard, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Caddo Parish value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Mental health providers · high812 /100k
98/100Louisiana 365 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCaddo Parish value
Primary care physicians · high137 /100k
97/100Louisiana 71 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCaddo Parish value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
88/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCaddo Parish value
New business applications · high18.5 /1k
85/100Louisiana 16.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauCaddo Parish value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCaddo Parish value
Social associations · high12.7 /10k
81/100Louisiana 9.4 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCaddo Parish value

Weaknesses

Violent crime rate · high1,128 /100k
0/100Louisiana 515 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureCaddo Parish value
Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationCaddo Parish value
Property crime rate · high3,511 /100k
1/100Louisiana 1,966 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureCaddo Parish value
Homicide rate · high19.4 /100k
1/100Louisiana 11.8 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCaddo Parish value
Distance to an airport · high178 mi
1/100Louisiana 80 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCaddo Parish value
Reading scores · low2.48
2/100Louisiana 2.74United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCaddo Parish value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
3,112 (2015-2019) → 3,437 (2020-2024)
+10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.9% (2015-2019) → 95.7% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
3.6% (2015-2019) → 17.0% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
19.9% (2015-2019) → 29.7% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
2.9% (2015-2019) → 12.5% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.6% (2015-2019) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Blanchard, Louisiana improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+19 points76.9% → 95.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Blanchard, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.7 min2015-2019	21.7 min2020-2024	−2.0 min	Within the margin of error	71%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.7%2015-2019	20.6%2020-2024	−4 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Broadband subscriptions	76.9%2015-2019	95.7%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	88%
Effective property tax rate	0.60%2015-2019	0.71%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	6%
High school diploma or higher	95.4%2015-2019	88.7%2020-2024	−6.7 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	42%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3722015-2019	0.4132020-2024	+0.041	Within the margin of error	20%
Median household income	$75,9122015-2019	$75,0692020-2024	−1.1%	Within the margin of error	7%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	44.6%2015-2019	49.1%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	40%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Blanchard, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Blanchard, Louisiana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Blanchard, Louisiana itself moved −10.1 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

3,437 residents (±27)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,221 households (±122)

Blanchard, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k19%†234
$25k–50k20%†246
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,221 households (±122)

Blanchard, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own77%938
Rent23%†283

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,432 workers (±178)

Blanchard, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone88%1,258
Carpool3.1%†44
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Caddo Parish, the county holding most of Blanchard's residents.

Caddo Parish has 6,086 employer establishments, 269 for every 10,000 residents (1.08× the US rate of 248; 1.14× Louisiana's), with 96,381 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,246. The Census Bureau also counts 24,088 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,086; 24,088 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 269; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 96,381
Average annual pay: $54,246; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Caddo Parish by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	634	28	1.34×More than typical	6,696	$82,747	1,696
Restaurants and other eating places	405	17.9	0.97×About typical	8,875	$19,963	160
Specialty trade contractors	323	14.3	0.92×About typical	3,298	$59,988	1,104
Offices of physicians	280	12.4	1.91×More than typical	2,664	$126,304	363
Lessors of real estate	271	12	0.97×About typical	1,071	$45,360	1,967
Limited-service restaurants	234	10.3	1.29×More than typical	5,128	$17,670	79
Religious organizations	197	8.7	1.57×More than typical	2,477	$27,489	—
Legal services	194	8.6	1.59×More than typical	917	$75,347	210
Building equipment contractors	153	6.8	1.12×About typical	2,168	$63,808	221
Insurance agencies and brokerages	132	5.8	1.33×More than typical	683	$77,447	358
Offices of other health practitioners	132	5.8	0.96×About typical	831	$46,953	458
Full-service restaurants	130	5.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	3,347	$23,346	49

Rank places for an industry Open Caddo Parish

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 226,605 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$1.03 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Blanchard, Louisiana: -$0.00 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: -$1.03; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.00; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

RED BALL OXYGEN CO., INC.-$1.030.0%

Spending by fiscal year

20.3KFY2017
46.6KFY2018
11.9KFY2019
1.8KFY2020
5.6KFY2021
2.1KFY2022
2.4KFY2023
3.1KFY2024
465.4

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Blanchard, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Blanchard, Louisiana's figures are part of those of Caddo Parish, LA ($89.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Blanchard is mostly in Caddo Parish.

See federal money in Caddo Parish

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Blanchard, Louisiana is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Caddo Parish17100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA17

Other cities and towns in Caddo Parish

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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