While Baton Rouge is widely regarded as home by thousands of college students, one aspect of the city remains infamous: transportation.
According to a recent study conducted by ValuePenguin, Baton Rouge ranks in the top 15 worst college towns in the United States for students to have cars.
Baton Rouge ranked 94 out of 105 cities scored from best to worst. The study scored each location based on affordability, safety and convenience. The three categories consist of 14 different factors considered by analysts,
including weather, poor roads, parking and theft, so the final average scores would reflect the overall “car culture” of the college town.
Baton Rouge ranked 87 in the affordability category, 99 in safety and 28 in convenience for an average ranking of 94 out of 105 college towns surveyed.
The study notes that the worst colleges to bring your car are in big cities. To find “true” college towns, researchers looked at census data for zip codes where more than 50 percent of the population was enrolled in college, as well as places where more than 20 percent of the population was 20 to 24 years old.