14,797 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.3% since 2020)
569 square miles of land · 26 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.
19 active community water systems list Jackson Parish in the area they serve, reporting 18,119 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1049010 | 6,231 served |
| WESTON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1049019 | 1,980 served |
| PUNKIN CENTER HILLTOP WS groundwater · private · LA1049013 | 1,710 served |
| VILLAGE OF CHATHAM WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1049004 | 1,557 served |
| EBENEZER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1049026 | 828 served |
| EROS COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1049022 | 729 served |
| MCDONALD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1049011 | 675 served |
| VILLAGE OF QUITMAN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1049014 | 648 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 769 people were held in Jackson Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 8,341 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 1,050.
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 Jackson Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $39.2 million — $34.1 million to run schools, about $15,778 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14 million local (mostly property tax), $14 million state, $10.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.5 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 Jackson Parish about $5.6 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.
163 bridges in Jackson Parish: 38 in good condition, 112 fair, and 13 poor (8.0%). “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.
| LA0004 over CREEK · built 1952 | 897 vehicles a day |
| LA0004 over CREEK · built 1952 | 897 vehicles a day |
| LA0146 over CREEK · built 1951 | 882 vehicles a day |
| SILOAM CHURCH RD over DRY CREEK · built 1957 | 825 vehicles a day |
| LA0148 over CREEK · built 1955 | 532 vehicles a day |
| LA0556 over DRY CREEK · built 1968 | 376 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.3 million of work in Jackson Parish in fiscal 2025, about $288 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 Jackson 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 Jackson Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lincoln Parish (21 mi) · Winn Parish (25 mi) · Ouachita Parish (27 mi) · Bienville Parish (28 mi) · Caldwell Parish (30 mi) · Union Parish (38 mi).