9,093 people (2024 Census estimate, −8.3% since 2020)
624 square miles of land · 15 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.
4 active community water systems list Madison Parish in the area they serve, reporting 13,542 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF TALLULAH WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1065003 | 8,601 served |
| WALNUT BAYOU WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · private · LA1065004 | 3,531 served |
| BAYOU MACON WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · private · LA1065005 | 1,041 served |
| VILLAGE OF DELTA WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · LA1065001 | 369 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 807 people were held in Madison Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 14,362 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 676.
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 Madison Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $26.9 million — $25.7 million to run schools, about $18,632 per student, plus $453,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $9 million state, $12 million federal. Long-term debt: $13.1 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 Madison Parish about $6.2 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.
104 bridges in Madison Parish: 18 in good condition, 79 fair, and 7 poor (6.7%). “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.
| US0080 over PANOLA BAYOU · built 1955 | 1,558 vehicles a day |
| US0080 over BAYOU MACON · built 1955 | 1,451 vehicles a day |
| W BEAR LAKE RD over TENSAS RIVER · built 1950 | 187 vehicles a day |
| LA0577 over SUTT BAYOU · built 1958 | 184 vehicles a day |
| LA0577 over JOES BAYOU · built 1969 | 161 vehicles a day |
| HODGE RD over CYPRESS BAYOU · built 1984 | 142 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11 million of work in Madison Parish in fiscal 2025, about $1,100 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 Madison 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 Madison Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Warren County, MS (22 mi) · Tensas Parish (25 mi) · East Carroll Parish (26 mi) · Franklin Parish (29 mi) · Richland Parish (30 mi) · Issaquena County, MS (31 mi).