131,102 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.8% since 2020)
840 square miles of land · 156 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 Bossier Parish in the area they serve, reporting 148,667 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF BOSSIER CITY WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1015004 | 79,506 served |
| VILLAGE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1015018 | 24,813 served |
| BARKSDALE AFB WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · federal · LA1015022 | 13,000 served |
| TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · LA1015002 | 8,037 served |
| CYPRESS BLACK BAYOU WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · private · LA1015040 | 5,520 served |
| TOWN OF HAUGHTON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1015011 | 5,355 served |
| SLIGO WATER SYSTEM INCORPORATED groundwater · private · LA1015044 | 2,850 served |
| TOWN OF PLAIN DEALING WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1015016 | 2,346 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 1,122 people were held in Bossier Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 1,354 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 1,446.
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 Bossier Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $342.6 million — $320.1 million to run schools, about $13,381 per student, plus $16.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $166.2 million local (mostly property tax), $146.4 million state, $52 million federal. Long-term debt: $159.1 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 Bossier Parish about $47.5 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.
269 bridges in Bossier Parish: 74 in good condition, 154 fair, and 41 poor (15.2%). “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.
| I0020 over STL&SW-KCS RR/WESTERFIEL · built 1966 | 69,892 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over STL&SW-KCS RR/WESTERFIEL · built 1966 | 45,300 vehicles a day |
| LA0511 over RED R. C.FANT PKWY AR TE · built 1968 | 28,999 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over US71&KCSRR · built 1966 | 23,105 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over MACKS BAYOU · built 1967 | 15,642 vehicles a day |
| US0080 over ALLIGATOR BAYOU · built 1955 | 15,627 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $129.1 million of work in Bossier Parish in fiscal 2025, about $1,002 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 Bossier 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 Bossier Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Webster Parish (17 mi) · Caddo Parish (17 mi) · Lafayette County, AR (37 mi) · Claiborne Parish (38 mi) · Bienville Parish (42 mi) · Columbia County, AR (43 mi).