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Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
Louisiana is a South Central US state, with a 2020 US census resident population of 4,657,757, [2] and apportioned population of 4,661,468. [3] [4] Much of the state's population is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's major metropolitan areas (Shreveport-Bossier City; Monroe ...
The U.S. State of Louisiana currently has 25 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, ten metropolitan statistical areas, and nine micropolitan statistical areas in Louisiana. [1]
Population [8] Area [6] Map Acadia Parish: 001: Crowley: 1886: from part of St. Landry Parish. From Acadian French. Named for the Acadians who settled the area. 56,489: 658 sq mi (1,704 km 2) Allen Parish: 003: Oberlin: 1912: from part of Calcasieu Parish. Henry Watkins Allen, the Confederate governor of Louisiana: 22,112: 766 sq mi (1,984 km 2 ...
The population decrease in Louisiana is largely attributed to a high number of residents moving out of the state, and a low number of residents moving to the state. In fact, between 2020 and 2023 ...
This nine-parish region had a population of 705,973 in 2000. In 2023, Assumption Parish was added to the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. A new combined statistical area. [17] At the 2019 American Community Survey, the metropolitan area had an estimated population of 854,884. [18] In 2020, its population was an estimated 858,571. [5]
SmartAsset examined population estimates from the Census Bureau for 2023, 2022 and 2018 to determine one-year and five-year population changes for cities with populations of at least 65,000 in ...