Bossier City Cited as One Of The Worst Small Cities
A study of America's best small cities has ranked over 1,300 cities, including one that might confuse a few people, Bossier City.
🗺️Bossier City Ranks Low Among Other Cities of Its Size
🗺️Bossier's Population Technically Makes it a 'Small City'
About the Study.
Financial Aid company WalletHub has published a study titled Best Small Cities in America (2024). The study picked out 1,318 different cities with populations between 25,000 people and 100,000 people. Each city's rank was determined by 5 main categories with a total of 45 subcategories, ranging from quality of life to education to economic health.
Sources for WalletHub's study include data from the U.S. Census Bureau, F.B.I., Bureau of Labor Statistics, Yelp, independent research, and others which you can find listed in the study here.
In a Sea of 1,300 Other Cities, Bossier Stands Out.
Bossier City had an overall score of 48 of 99 possible points in the study. Landing in the 4th percentile Bossier City has a population of 62,635 (as of the 2022 census), placing the city's size right in the middle of what WalletHub considers a small city.
Bossier's worst-performing metric was in economic health, to which Bossier scored 43rd place of the cities with the worst economic health. The economic health category has 9 subcategories, population growth, income growth, job growth, unemployment rate, the share of the population living in poverty, debt per median earnings, foreclosure rate, the share of people who had a bankruptcy in the past year, and median credit score.
Bossier's best-performing stat was in the quality of life category. Out of the 1,318 small cities reviewed in the study, Bossier landed 390th in quality of life, which is broken down into 15 subcategories which include items such as bars per capita, average work commute, fitness centers per capita, movie theaters per capita, etc.