152,886 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.0% since 2020)
648 square miles of land · 236 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.
28 active community water systems list Livingston Parish in the area they serve, reporting 160,380 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WARD II WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · LA1063039 | 78,147 served |
| CITY OF DENHAM SPRINGS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1063004 | 25,725 served |
| TOWN OF WALKER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1063017 | 15,813 served |
| TOWN OF LIVINGSTON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1063013 | 8,946 served |
| TOWN OF ALBANY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1063022 | 7,305 served |
| FOURTH WARD WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · LA1063005 | 4,839 served |
| COLYELL COMMUNITY WATER groundwater · local government · LA1063003 | 4,544 served |
| UTILITIES INC- WHITEHALL/ HEAD OF ISLAND groundwater · private · LA1063028 | 2,676 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 639 people were held in Livingston Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 655 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 671.
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 Livingston Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $372 million — $334.6 million to run schools, about $12,066 per student, plus $31.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $127.7 million local (mostly property tax), $201.2 million state, $54 million federal. Long-term debt: $114.4 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 High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Livingston Parish about $165.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
251 bridges in Livingston Parish: 97 in good condition, 135 fair, and 19 poor (7.6%). “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.
| LA0042 over AMITE RIVER @ PVINCENT · built 1963 | 13,122 vehicles a day |
| LA1026 over CREEK · built 1961 | 8,669 vehicles a day |
| LA1033 over GREYS CREEK · built 1955 | 2,876 vehicles a day |
| LA0449 over CREEK · built 1955 | 1,467 vehicles a day |
| LA0063 over Little Beaver Dam · built 1962 | 1,234 vehicles a day |
| LA1024 over CREEK · built 1942 | 1,020 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $137.3 million of work in Livingston Parish in fiscal 2025, about $965 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 Livingston 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 Livingston Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ascension Parish (20 mi) · Tangipahoa Parish (23 mi) · East Baton Rouge Parish (23 mi) · St. John the Baptist Parish (25 mi) · St. Helena Parish (26 mi) · St. James Parish (29 mi).