19,107 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.1% since 2020)
624 square miles of land · 31 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 Franklin Parish in the area they serve, reporting 25,752 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NORTH FRANKLIN WATER WORKS groundwater · private · LA1041003 | 7,989 served |
| CITY OF WINNSBORO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1041006 | 7,518 served |
| TURKEY CREEK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1041012 | 3,429 served |
| WEST WINNSBORO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1041009 | 3,078 served |
| LIDDIEVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1041010 | 1,602 served |
| TOWN OF WISNER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1041007 | 1,221 served |
| VILLAGE OF GILBERT WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · LA1041002 | 915 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 752 people were held in Franklin Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 6,372 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 780.
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 Franklin Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $46.7 million — $45.3 million to run schools, about $15,907 per student, plus $907,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.6 million local (mostly property tax), $20.9 million state, $15.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.3 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 Franklin Parish about $7.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
130 bridges in Franklin Parish: 84 in good condition, 41 fair, and 5 poor (3.8%). “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.
| LA0577 over BULL BAYOU · built 1955 | 1,341 vehicles a day |
| LA0128 over TURKEY CREEK · built 1970 | 1,059 vehicles a day |
| LA0866 over DRAINAGE CANAL · built 1984 | 165 vehicles a day |
| Bobby Woods Rd over BIG CREEK · built 1976 | 115 vehicles a day |
| Big Creek Rd over BIG CREEK · built 1976 | 77 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.9 million of work in Franklin Parish in fiscal 2025, about $347 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 Franklin 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 Franklin Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Richland Parish (19 mi) · Tensas Parish (21 mi) · Caldwell Parish (26 mi) · Madison Parish (29 mi) · Catahoula Parish (34 mi) · Ouachita Parish (37 mi).