56,604 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
655 square miles of land · 86 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
12 active community water systems list Acadia Parish in the area they serve, reporting 63,222 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAWCO - CROWLEY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1001002 | 17,634 served |
| CITY OF RAYNE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1001007 | 10,908 served |
| MIRE BRANCH WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · LA1001024 | 9,480 served |
| EGAN WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · LA1001025 | 5,337 served |
| SOUTH RAYNE WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · LA1001022 | 4,254 served |
| TOWN OF CHURCH POINT WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1001001 | 4,176 served |
| NORTH OF CROWLEY WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · LA1001023 | 4,020 served |
| EGAN WATER CORPORATION NO 2 groundwater · private · LA1001026 | 2,835 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 169 people were held in Acadia Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 471 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 200.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Acadia Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $128.2 million — $119.3 million to run schools, about $12,428 per student, plus $7.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $35.8 million local (mostly property tax), $60.6 million state, $33.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.7 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Acadia Parish about $50.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
280 bridges in Acadia Parish: 118 in good condition, 139 fair, and 23 poor (8.2%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| LA0013 over CREEK · built 1960 | 5,915 vehicles a day |
| LA0098 over CREEK · built 1973 | 3,881 vehicles a day |
| Pine St over Blanc Bayou · built 1967 | 2,592 vehicles a day |
| Sittig St. over COULEE · built 1990 | 2,016 vehicles a day |
| LA0091 over BAYOU JONAS · built 1979 | 1,617 vehicles a day |
| LA0091 over B. PLAQ. BRULE/ESTHERWOO · built 1975 | 1,617 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.8 million of work in Acadia Parish in fiscal 2025, about $153 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Louisiana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Acadia Parish come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Acadia Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lafayette Parish (21 mi) · Jefferson Davis Parish (24 mi) · Evangeline Parish (30 mi) · St. Landry Parish (32 mi) · Vermilion Parish (34 mi) · Allen Parish (35 mi).