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Population per Square Mile in Louisiana, by County

Population per Square Mile for every county in Louisiana, ranked. The highest is Orleans Parish at 2,193.8 and the lowest is Cameron Parish at 3.9.

Louisiana: 106.7 · United States: n/a · median county in Louisiana: 48.3

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#County Population per Square Mile
1Orleans Parish2,193.8
2Jefferson Parish1,432.3
3East Baton Rouge Parish994.4
4Lafayette Parish922.5
5Ascension Parish449.4
6St. Tammany Parish322.3
7Caddo Parish261.5
8Ouachita Parish259.7
9Livingston Parish228.5
10Calcasieu Parish194.6
11St. John the Baptist Parish190.0
12St. Charles Parish185.1
13Tangipahoa Parish172.8
14Bossier Parish154.6
15West Baton Rouge Parish145.4
16Iberia Parish119.4
17St. Bernard Parish117.7
18Lincoln Parish102.1
19Rapides Parish96.3
20Lafourche Parish90.1
21St. Landry Parish88.4
22Acadia Parish86.9
23Terrebonne Parish86.3
24St. Mary Parish85.6
25St. James Parish82.1
26St. Martin Parish69.6
27Washington Parish67.4
28Webster Parish60.4
29Assumption Parish59.5
30Jefferson Davis Parish49.0
31Vermilion Parish48.7
32Evangeline Parish48.4
33Iberville Parish48.3
34Avoyelles Parish46.8
35East Feliciana Parish42.5
36West Feliciana Parish38.0
37Pointe Coupee Parish36.4
38Richland Parish35.7
39Vernon Parish35.5
40Grant Parish34.3
41Beauregard Parish31.7
42Franklin Parish31.1
43Morehouse Parish30.9
44De Soto Parish30.8
45Allen Parish29.5
46Natchitoches Parish29.3
47Plaquemines Parish29.2
48St. Helena Parish26.6
49West Carroll Parish26.3
50Concordia Parish26.1
51Jackson Parish26.1
52Sabine Parish25.4
53LaSalle Parish23.7
54Union Parish23.7
55Red River Parish19.1
56Claiborne Parish18.3
57Caldwell Parish17.9
58East Carroll Parish16.8
59Bienville Parish15.6
60Madison Parish15.2
61Winn Parish14.2
62Catahoula Parish12.1
63Tensas Parish6.5
64Cameron Parish3.9

People divided by land area. Water is excluded, so lake and coastal counties are not unfairly diluted.

Source: ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, 2024.

Louisiana ranks 28th of 52 states for population per square mile.

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