The 10 Worst Louisville Suburbs

The 10 Worst Louisville Suburbs To Live For 2024

We’ll get the ball rolling with Louisville, the absolute worst place to live around Louisville according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Louisville beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the worst in the Louisville area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Louisville.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to Louisville. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 4.3 miles to Louisville. Income levels here are the lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $36,078 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Louisville suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see Lebanon Junction on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Louisville suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in Radcliff, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 9th lowest Louisville suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 2nd worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Louisville. Remember, we looked at 32 cities for this study.

Radcliff is about 29.7 miles to downtown.

Clarksville has the distinction of being a Louisville suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, Clarksville has the 4th lowest home values in the metro Louisville area, where the median price is $184,231. The median income is $202,917.

Clarksville has an unemployment rate of 4.37% which ranks 16th worst.

Shively has 15,595 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 19.05323891948597%.

Ah, New Albany. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Louisville.

It’s the place with the 11th most out of work residents in the Louisville metro area (4.85%).

Hillview is a city about 12.2 miles from Louisville, but Louisville probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. Hillview has the 4th most uninsured people, 10th worst incomes, and has the 18th highest unemployment rate (3.92%) in the entire Louisville metro area.

Homes only cost $196,339 for a reason. That’s cheap for Louisville standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Louisville, then Brandenburg might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Louisville suburb.

About 2.99% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Louisville suburbs to call home is Jeffersonville.

Located 8.5 miles outside the city, Jeffersonvilles is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 20th highest unemployment rate (3.61%), and poverty is far above the area average.