31,745 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.7% since 2020)
662 square miles of land · 48 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.
13 active community water systems list Evangeline Parish in the area they serve, reporting 42,985 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF VILLE PLATTE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1039010 | 6,590 served |
| EAST SIDE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1039003 | 5,718 served |
| VILLAGE OF TURKEY CREEK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1039013 | 5,289 served |
| TOWN OF MAMOU WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1039005 | 4,559 served |
| BAYOU DES CANNES WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1039016 | 4,530 served |
| POINT BLUE/CHATAIGINER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1039006 | 3,471 served |
| REDDELL VIDRINE WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · LA1039007 | 2,952 served |
| EVANGELINE WW DISTRICT 1 - PINE PRAIRIE groundwater · local government · LA1039004 | 2,598 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 88 people were held in Evangeline Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 440 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 73.
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 Evangeline Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $91.7 million — $87 million to run schools, about $15,255 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.7 million local (mostly property tax), $42 million state, $24.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.6 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Evangeline Parish about $22.9 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.
155 bridges in Evangeline Parish: 68 in good condition, 77 fair, and 10 poor (6.5%). “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.
| LA0010 over Nezpique Bayou E. Fork · built 1950 | 1,599 vehicles a day |
| LA0374 over BAYOU · built 1956 | 632 vehicles a day |
| CC Camp Road over LAKE CHICOT · built 1980 | 150 vehicles a day |
| Cousins Rd. over DES CANNES BAYOU · built 2010 | 146 vehicles a day |
| Spillway Rd. over CHICOT BAYOU · built 1970 | 90 vehicles a day |
| Lithcombe Rd over COULEE MANUEL · built 2001 | 80 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9.5 million of work in Evangeline Parish in fiscal 2025, about $293 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 Evangeline 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 Evangeline Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Allen Parish (25 mi) · St. Landry Parish (26 mi) · Acadia Parish (30 mi) · Rapides Parish (34 mi) · Avoyelles Parish (36 mi) · Jefferson Davis Parish (40 mi).