36,695 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
1,157 square miles of land · 32 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.
7 active community water systems list Beauregard Parish in the area they serve, reporting 49,360 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BEAUREGARD WATER WORKS DIST #3 groundwater · local government · LA1011008 | 24,000 served |
| CITY OF DERIDDER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1011001 | 14,400 served |
| BEAUREGARD DISTRICT NO 2 WARD NO 5 groundwater · local government · LA1011012 | 6,613 served |
| MAGNOLIA-GREEN ACRES SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · LA1011004 | 1,575 served |
| TOWN OF MERRYVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1011007 | 1,107 served |
| BEAUREGARD WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 6 groundwater · local government · LA1011013 | 993 served |
| BEAUREGARD WATER DISTRICT #5 groundwater · local government · LA1011009 | 672 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 137 people were held in Beauregard Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 598 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 145.
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 Beauregard Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $91.2 million — $74.6 million to run schools, about $12,393 per student, plus $14.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $41.8 million local (mostly property tax), $37.6 million state, $9.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $49.3 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Beauregard Parish about $16.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
221 bridges in Beauregard Parish: 28 in good condition, 170 fair, and 23 poor (10.4%). “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.
| US0190 over DRAIN · built 1964 | 18,056 vehicles a day |
| US0190 over DRAIN · built 1964 | 6,365 vehicles a day |
| US0190 over DRAIN · built 1964 | 4,254 vehicles a day |
| LA3099 over PALMETTO CREEK · built 1973 | 2,614 vehicles a day |
| LA0110 over DRAIN · built 1968 | 1,947 vehicles a day |
| LA0110 over CREEK · built 1982 | 1,947 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $539,885 of work in Beauregard Parish in fiscal 2025, about $15 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 Beauregard 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 Beauregard Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Newton County, TX (26 mi) · Calcasieu Parish (29 mi) · Allen Parish (31 mi) · Vernon Parish (33 mi) · Jefferson Davis Parish (40 mi) · Jasper County, TX (41 mi).