67,540 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.6% since 2020)
575 square miles of land · 118 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 Iberia Parish in the area they serve, reporting 75,060 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAWCO - NEW IBERIA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1045009 | 59,928 served |
| IBERIA WATER WORKS DISTRICT 3 - COTEAU groundwater · local government · LA1045002 | 8,775 served |
| CITY OF JEANERETTE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1045004 | 6,189 served |
| MAGNOLIA-PORT EAST groundwater · private · LA1045037 | 45 served |
| R & D PROPERTIES MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · LA1045041 | 42 served |
| BADGER TRAIL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1045042 | 42 served |
| MJS ESTATES WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1045040 | 39 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 364 people were held in Iberia Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 834 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 370.
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 Iberia Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $156.9 million — $148.2 million to run schools, about $12,597 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $63.3 million local (mostly property tax), $76 million state, $33.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $91.2 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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Iberia Parish about $63.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
142 bridges in Iberia Parish: 60 in good condition, 67 fair, and 15 poor (10.6%). “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.
| US0090 over NEW IBERIA SOUTHERN CANA · built 1999 | 12,192 vehicles a day |
| LA0182 over SANDAGER CANAL · built 1930 | 6,242 vehicles a day |
| US0090 over NEW IBERIA SOUTHERN CANA · built 1999 | 3,244 vehicles a day |
| LA0320 over TECHE BAYOU/OLIVIER · built 1963 | 3,241 vehicles a day |
| LA0085 over PATOUT CANAL · built 1945 | 3,125 vehicles a day |
| LA0682 over CREEK · built 1967 | 750 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.3 million of work in Iberia Parish in fiscal 2025, about $290 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 Iberia 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 Iberia Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: St. Mary Parish (23 mi) · Vermilion Parish (32 mi) · St. Martin Parish (38 mi) · Lafayette Parish (44 mi) · Assumption Parish (51 mi) · Iberville Parish (54 mi).