6,892 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.8% since 2020)
421 square miles of land · 16 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.
4 active community water systems list East Carroll Parish in the area they serve, reporting 8,070 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF LAKE PROVIDENCE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1035002 | 5,850 served |
| MONTICELLO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1035004 | 1,104 served |
| EAST CARROLL WS SOUTH buys groundwater · private · LA1035007 | 1,071 served |
| EAST CARROLL WS NORTH buys groundwater · private · LA1035006 | 45 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 1,361 people were held in East Carroll Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 28,810 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 1,150.
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 East Carroll Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $16.4 million — $15.6 million to run schools, about $19,240 per student, plus $762,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $6.5 million state, $7 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 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 East Carroll Parish about $4.5 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.
55 bridges in East Carroll Parish: 18 in good condition, 28 fair, and 9 poor (16.4%). “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.
| LA0002 over BAYOU MACON · built 1959 | 1,232 vehicles a day |
| LA0134 over JOES BAYOU · built 1967 | 759 vehicles a day |
| LA0580 over TENSAS BAYOU · built 1958 | 268 vehicles a day |
| LA0580 over JONES BAYOU · built 1958 | 212 vehicles a day |
| BULLRUN RD over BRIDGE CREEK · built 1975 | 190 vehicles a day |
| SCHROCK RD over BUSHY BAYOU · built 1960 | 130 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.6 million of work in East Carroll Parish in fiscal 2025, about $210 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 East Carroll 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 East Carroll Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: West Carroll Parish (13 mi) · Issaquena County, MS (13 mi) · Sharkey County, MS (26 mi) · Madison Parish (26 mi) · Morehouse Parish (33 mi) · Warren County, MS (34 mi).