13,537 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.0% since 2020)
755 square miles of land · 18 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 Claiborne Parish in the area they serve, reporting 20,938 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF HOMER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1027003 | 4,365 served |
| SOUTH CLAIBORNE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1027006 | 3,843 served |
| TOWN OF HAYNESVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1027002 | 3,600 served |
| CENTRAL CLAIBORNE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1027009 | 2,859 served |
| DAVID WADE CORRECTIONAL CENTER WS groundwater · state · LA1027008 | 1,660 served |
| SUMMERFIELD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1027011 | 1,329 served |
| VILLAGE OF LISBON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1027005 | 891 served |
| PINE HILL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1027007 | 729 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 547 people were held in Claiborne Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 6,535 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 0.
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 Claiborne Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.5 million — $29.3 million to run schools, about $16,903 per student, plus $788,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.3 million local (mostly property tax), $14.1 million state, $8.8 million federal.
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 Claiborne Parish about $7.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
148 bridges in Claiborne Parish: 44 in good condition, 71 fair, and 33 poor (22.3%). “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.
| LA0009 over LEATHERMAN CREEK · built 1975 | 2,248 vehicles a day |
| LA0009 over CYPRESS CREEK · built 1992 | 1,812 vehicles a day |
| LA0146 over CANEY CREEK · built 1966 | 1,360 vehicles a day |
| LA0146 over CREEK · built 1966 | 1,360 vehicles a day |
| LA0146 over ALLEN CREEK · built 1968 | 1,360 vehicles a day |
| LA0146 over DRAIN · built 1968 | 1,360 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.2 million of work in Claiborne Parish in fiscal 2025, about $226 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 Claiborne 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 Claiborne Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Webster Parish (21 mi) · Lincoln Parish (25 mi) · Columbia County, AR (31 mi) · Union County, AR (33 mi) · Bienville Parish (34 mi) · Union Parish (36 mi).