12,412 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.9% since 2020)
811 square miles of land · 15 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.
20 active community water systems list Bienville Parish in the area they serve, reporting 16,633 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF ARCADIA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1013003 | 4,146 served |
| TOWN OF RINGGOLD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1013013 | 2,283 served |
| ALBERTA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1013002 | 1,860 served |
| CYPRESS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1013019 | 1,125 served |
| TOWN OF GIBSLAND WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1013008 | 979 served |
| ALABAMA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1013001 | 948 served |
| FRIENDSHIP WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1013007 | 717 served |
| MT OLIVE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1013012 | 600 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 31 people were held in Bienville Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 419 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 53.
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 Bienville Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48.3 million — $41.5 million to run schools, about $21,059 per student, plus $5.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $47.4 million local (mostly property tax), $10.5 million state, $5.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $25 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Bienville Parish about $5.7 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.
190 bridges in Bienville Parish: 37 in good condition, 100 fair, and 53 poor (27.9%). “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.
| I0020 over CROWS CR RELIEF · built 1960 | 37,514 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over BEAR CREEK · built 1964 | 37,514 vehicles a day |
| LA0151 over I-20 · built 1963 | 9,385 vehicles a day |
| LA0009 over I-20 @ ARCADIA · built 1964 | 4,151 vehicles a day |
| CRAWFORD RD over I-20 · built 1963 | 2,920 vehicles a day |
| LA0147 over SALINE BAYOU · built 1979 | 1,988 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $14.6 million of work in Bienville Parish in fiscal 2025, about $1,125 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 Bienville 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 Bienville Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Red River Parish (24 mi) · Jackson Parish (28 mi) · Lincoln Parish (28 mi) · Webster Parish (32 mi) · Claiborne Parish (34 mi) · Winn Parish (36 mi).