22,109 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.2% since 2020)
644 square miles of land · 34 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 Grant Parish in the area they serve, reporting 25,910 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SOUTH GRANT WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · LA1043008 | 5,289 served |
| POLLOCK AREA WATER SYSTEM INC groundwater · private · LA1043017 | 3,900 served |
| WEST GRANT WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · private · LA1043014 | 3,324 served |
| TOWN OF COLFAX groundwater · local government · LA1043002 | 2,552 served |
| CENTRAL GRANT WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1043013 | 2,250 served |
| RED HILL WATERWORKS INC. groundwater · private · LA1043018 | 1,914 served |
| TOWN OF POLLOCK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1043007 | 1,353 served |
| ZONE 2 WATER SYSTEM INC. groundwater · private · LA1043001 | 1,344 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 94 people were held in Grant Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 627 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 97.
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 Grant Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $41.5 million — $38 million to run schools, about $12,781 per student, plus $3.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10 million local (mostly property tax), $23.7 million state, $8.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.3 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 Grant Parish about $8.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
209 bridges in Grant Parish: 75 in good condition, 104 fair, and 30 poor (14.4%). “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.
| US0167 over MOSLEY MILL CREEK · built 1975 | 11,712 vehicles a day |
| US0167 over BEAR CREEK · built 1975 | 11,712 vehicles a day |
| US0165 over LA 1230 UP RR · built 1956 | 7,084 vehicles a day |
| US0071 over BAYOU RIGOLETTE · built 1950 | 2,063 vehicles a day |
| US0071 over BAYOU RIGOLETTE · built 1950 | 1,931 vehicles a day |
| LA0008 over BIG CREEK · built 1968 | 1,590 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.7 million of work in Grant Parish in fiscal 2025, about $391 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 Grant 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 Grant Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Winn Parish (24 mi) · LaSalle Parish (24 mi) · Rapides Parish (28 mi) · Natchitoches Parish (32 mi) · Catahoula Parish (42 mi) · Caldwell Parish (44 mi).