224,893 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.1% since 2020)
880 square miles of land · 256 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.
41 active community water systems list Caddo Parish in the area they serve, reporting 245,187 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF SHREVEPORT WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1017031 | 192,378 served |
| TOWN OF BLANCHARD WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1017006 | 16,488 served |
| WATERWORKS DISTRICT 7 groundwater · local government · LA1017052 | 5,889 served |
| TOWN OF GREENWOOD WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1017014 | 5,205 served |
| PINEHILL WATERWORKS DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · LA1017027 | 4,926 served |
| TOWN OF VIVIAN WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1017037 | 4,050 served |
| TOWN OF OIL CITY WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · LA1017026 | 2,169 served |
| LAKEVIEW WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · private · LA1017019 | 2,025 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 1,391 people were held in Caddo Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 1,002 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 1,506.
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 Caddo Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $581.3 million — $512.6 million to run schools, about $14,182 per student, plus $53.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $294 million local (mostly property tax), $204.9 million state, $125.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $101.1 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 Caddo Parish about $88.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
683 bridges in Caddo Parish: 275 in good condition, 363 fair, and 45 poor (6.6%). “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 M.P. RR · built 1965 | 98,318 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over M.P. RR · built 1965 | 98,318 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over LK SHORE DR&KESRR · built 1965 | 98,318 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over LK SHORE DR&KCSRR · built 1965 | 98,318 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over MARSHALL ST/LA 1/RRS. · built 1965 | 98,318 vehicles a day |
| I0020 over ON RAMP TO I-20 WBL · built 1980 | 87,567 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $124 million of work in Caddo Parish in fiscal 2025, about $521 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 Caddo 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 Caddo Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bossier Parish (17 mi) · Harrison County, TX (29 mi) · Marion County, TX (31 mi) · Webster Parish (33 mi) · De Soto Parish (37 mi) · Panola County, TX (38 mi).