17,797 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.2% since 2020)
696 square miles of land · 26 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 Concordia Parish in the area they serve, reporting 25,815 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CONCORDIA WATERWORKS DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · LA1029003 | 6,921 served |
| TOWN OF VIDALIA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1029011 | 6,354 served |
| MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC groundwater · private · LA1029007 | 5,250 served |
| TOWN OF FERRIDAY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1029005 | 3,816 served |
| LAKE ST JOHN WATERWORKS DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · LA1029006 | 2,067 served |
| VILLAGE OF CLAYTON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1029002 | 723 served |
| VILLAGE OF RIDGECREST WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · LA1029009 | 684 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 567 people were held in Concordia Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 5,090 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 1,090.
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 Concordia Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $52.7 million — $49.5 million to run schools, about $15,509 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.8 million local (mostly property tax), $22.6 million state, $12.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $241,000.
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 Concordia Parish about $6.8 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.
42 bridges in Concordia Parish: 16 in good condition, 20 fair, and 6 poor (14.3%). “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.
| US0084 over CANEY BAYOU · built 1932 | 6,163 vehicles a day |
| LA0129 over Ross Bayou · built 2000 | 1,684 vehicles a day |
| LA0015 over OLD RIVER OVERBANK C.S. · built 1959 | 602 vehicles a day |
| Wildcow Rd over Cocodrie Bayou · built 1984 | 110 vehicles a day |
| Poole Road (North) over Cocodrie Bayou · built 1975 | 110 vehicles a day |
| Boggy Bayou Rd over CREEK · built 1960 | 0 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $17.1 million of work in Concordia Parish in fiscal 2025, about $913 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 Concordia 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 Concordia Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Adams County, MS (16 mi) · Catahoula Parish (19 mi) · Wilkinson County, MS (28 mi) · Avoyelles Parish (34 mi) · LaSalle Parish (35 mi) · Jefferson County, MS (39 mi).