Microsoft product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation

Louisiana

Destrehan

Median home price: N/A
Cost-of-living index: 45%
Nonretail spending index: 47%
Location: about 24 miles west of New Orleans
Population: 12,050

The suburb, located near the Mississippi River west of the New Orleans International Airport, is famous for the former Destrehan indigo plantation. Residents send children to the well-respected St. Charles Parish schools. And wealthy subdivisions include the golf course community Ormond Estates.

next slide previous slide