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Louisiana Parish Map With Cities

Complete list of all 64 parishes in Louisiana with population, area, and median income — plus a free printable blank map.

Parishes
64
Population
4,611,457
Area
42,579 sq mi
Capital
Baton Rouge
Time Zone
Central (CT)

Tap or click any parish for details. Need a printable version? Blank Louisiana parish map (PDF/PNG/SVG).

All 64 Louisiana parishes

County Largest City Population Area Median Income Cities
East Baton RougeBaton Rouge451,022455 mi²$65,9125
JeffersonMetairie430,920296 mi²$64,93110
OrleansNew Orleans371,853169 mi²$59,6931
St. TammanySlidell272,334846 mi²$83,09912
LafayetteLafayette249,293269 mi²$72,2837
CaddoShreveport232,773879 mi²$53,82513
CalcasieuLake Charles187,5171,064 mi²$71,2848
OuachitaMonroe151,402610 mi²$55,4865
TangipahoaHammond144,482791 mi²$58,40214
LivingstonDenham Springs143,052648 mi²$79,8279
AscensionPrairieville131,228290 mi²$94,31710
BossierBossier City126,861840 mi²$70,0387
RapidesAlexandria126,2811,318 mi²$56,67221
TerrebonneHouma106,7301,232 mi²$66,1349
LafourcheThibodaux95,7421,068 mi²$62,80211
AcadiaEunice81,284655 mi²$47,84812
IberiaNew Iberia71,437574 mi²$55,7966
St. LandryOpelousas68,075924 mi²$47,15513
VermilionAbbeville52,0051,173 mi²$55,0716
St. CharlesLuling49,725279 mi²$82,82810
LincolnRuston49,473472 mi²$41,1815
St. MaryMorgan City48,658555 mi²$53,2179
VernonLeesville46,7041,328 mi²$57,47912
WashingtonFranklinton45,956670 mi²$44,6865
St. MartinBreaux Bridge45,304738 mi²$56,1324
St. BernardChalmette44,327378 mi²$57,7825
St. John the BaptistLa Place41,809213 mi²$68,4865
AvoyellesMarksville39,226832 mi²$41,54114
BeauregardDeridder38,2651,157 mi²$66,4906
NatchitochesNatchitoches37,4511,252 mi²$46,12015
WebsterMinden36,688593 mi²$41,00010
IbervillePlaquemine30,972619 mi²$61,8758
CameronBell City30,0451,285 mi²$62,2806
Jefferson DavisJennings28,905651 mi²$58,1597
West Baton RougePort Allen28,012192 mi²$86,5684
EvangelineVille Platte27,608662 mi²$39,3577
UnionFarmerville27,113877 mi²$56,2087
De SotoMansfield26,926876 mi²$56,8269
MorehouseBastrop24,393795 mi²$41,9356
PlaqueminesBelle Chasse22,895780 mi²$87,86510
GrantPollock22,629643 mi²$63,6836
AllenOakdale21,734762 mi²$49,9279
SabineMany21,329867 mi²$50,9019
East FelicianaJackson21,187453 mi²$75,0986
St. JamesVacherie20,536242 mi²$67,5308
Pointe CoupeeNew Roads19,022557 mi²$69,77114
FranklinWinnsboro18,910625 mi²$47,2608
AssumptionNapoleonville17,783339 mi²$49,6656
ConcordiaFerriday16,246697 mi²$43,0975
JacksonJonesboro15,529569 mi²$44,2775
West FelicianaSaint Francisville15,292403 mi²$82,9305
MadisonTallulah14,770624 mi²$43,3493
RichlandRayville14,378559 mi²$50,9714
LaSalleJena14,094656 mi²$63,0314
WinnWinnfield13,737950 mi²$50,6839
ClaiborneHomer12,732755 mi²$31,0745
BienvilleArcadia11,371811 mi²$35,9407
CatahoulaJonesville10,717708 mi²$50,4497
CaldwellColumbia9,882529 mi²$54,9614
West CarrollOak Grove9,587360 mi²$47,6265
Red RiverCoushatta7,429389 mi²$49,9432
East CarrollLake Providence7,035421 mi²$32,8953
St. HelenaGreensburg6,847408 mi²$43,0172
TensasNewellton3,935603 mi²$34,5153

How many parishes does Louisiana have?

Louisiana uses the term "parish" instead of "county" — the only US state to do so. The term was inherited from the state's French and Catholic colonial period, when ecclesiastical parishes served as local administrative units. Today Louisiana's 64 parishes are functionally identical to counties in every other state.

The largest parish by land area is Vernon Parish at 1,328 square miles, home to about 46,704 residents. The most populous is East Baton Rouge Parish with approximately 451,022 residents — a density of about 991 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Tensas Parish has only about 3,935 residents.

Louisiana’s capital is Baton Rouge, while the largest city is New Orleans — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Louisiana’s parish boundaries from our blank map of Louisiana page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Louisiana parish a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Louisiana address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Louisiana specifically: the 100-mile radius around Baton Rouge measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Louisiana ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Louisiana’s 64 parishes in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Louisiana uses the term "parish" instead of "county" — the only US state to do so. The term was inherited from the state's French and Catholic colonial period, when ecclesiastical parishes served as local administrative units. Today Louisiana's 64 parishes are functionally identical to counties in every other state.
Vernon Parish is the largest by land area at 1,328 square miles, with about 46,704 residents.
East Baton Rouge Parish is the most populous, with approximately 451,022 residents over 455 square miles.
Tensas Parish has the smallest population at about 3,935 residents.
Baton Rouge is the state capital. The largest city is New Orleans — a common pattern in the US, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Parishesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,144). All sources are public domain.

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