23,787 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.6% since 2020)
795 square miles of land · 30 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.
15 active community water systems list Morehouse Parish in the area they serve, reporting 31,947 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BASTROP WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1067003 | 18,105 served |
| CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 groundwater · local government · LA1067012 | 3,498 served |
| WARD 3 WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1067016 | 1,740 served |
| BAYOU BONNE IDEE WS groundwater · private · LA1067002 | 1,656 served |
| BEEKMAN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1067018 | 1,275 served |
| WATERWORKS 1 OF MOREHOUSE, INC groundwater · local government · LA1067011 | 1,266 served |
| VILLAGE OF MER ROUGE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1067009 | 1,098 served |
| MOREHOUSE CENTRAL WS groundwater · private · LA1067010 | 780 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 442 people were held in Morehouse Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 2,901 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 176.
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 Morehouse Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $69.9 million — $56 million to run schools, about $16,560 per student, plus $13.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.8 million local (mostly property tax), $24.2 million state, $26.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.9 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Morehouse Parish about $11.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
136 bridges in Morehouse Parish: 44 in good condition, 73 fair, and 19 poor (14.0%). “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.
| LA0830-6 over HORSE BAYOU · built 1971 | 4,905 vehicles a day |
| LA0002 over BAYOU DELEMAR · built 1955 | 2,815 vehicles a day |
| US0165 over CREEK · built 1939 | 1,405 vehicles a day |
| US0165 over BAYOU GALION · built 1935 | 1,405 vehicles a day |
| US0165 over MP RAILROAD · built 1939 | 1,405 vehicles a day |
| LA0593 over BAYOU BARTHOLOMEW · built 1966 | 1,182 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $16.9 million of work in Morehouse Parish in fiscal 2025, about $660 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 Morehouse 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 Morehouse Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: West Carroll Parish (20 mi) · Ashley County, AR (26 mi) · Richland Parish (28 mi) · Ouachita Parish (31 mi) · Union Parish (33 mi) · East Carroll Parish (33 mi).