19,845 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.0% since 2020)
555 square miles of land · 36 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.
10 active community water systems list Pointe Coupee Parish in the area they serve, reporting 30,794 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| POINTE COUPEE WATER WORKS DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · LA1077043 | 10,629 served |
| TOWN OF NEW ROADS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1077026 | 9,024 served |
| POINTE COUPEE WWKS DISTRICT 2 - HWY 10 groundwater · local government · LA1077047 | 2,401 served |
| INNIS WATER CORPORATION INC groundwater · private · LA1077013 | 2,400 served |
| TOWN OF FORDOCHE groundwater · local government · LA1077009 | 1,380 served |
| TORBERT- FRISCO WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · LA1077037 | 1,320 served |
| POINTE COUPEE WWKS DISTRICT 2- BATCHELOR groundwater · local government · LA1077045 | 1,290 served |
| TOWN OF LIVONIA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1077022 | 1,234 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 94 people were held in Pointe Coupee Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 791 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 121.
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 Pointe Coupee Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $47.2 million — $45.3 million to run schools, about $16,733 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $25.4 million local (mostly property tax), $11 million state, $12.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $546,000.
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 Pointe Coupee Parish about $15.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
51 bridges in Pointe Coupee Parish: 14 in good condition, 26 fair, and 11 poor (21.6%). “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.
| LA0413 over FALSE BAYOU · built 1972 | 5,896 vehicles a day |
| LA0001 over BAYOU MOREAU · built 1957 | 3,289 vehicles a day |
| LA0001 over LATERAL W15#7A · built 1957 | 3,289 vehicles a day |
| Bridge Rd over BAYOU GROSSE TETE · built 1979 | 1,540 vehicles a day |
| LA0979 over FALSE RIVER CANAL · built 1980 | 748 vehicles a day |
| LA0081 over BAYOU BLACK · built 1969 | 231 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.6 million of work in Pointe Coupee Parish in fiscal 2025, about $994 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 Pointe Coupee 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 Pointe Coupee Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: West Feliciana Parish (16 mi) · West Baton Rouge Parish (24 mi) · St. Landry Parish (24 mi) · East Baton Rouge Parish (32 mi) · Iberville Parish (33 mi) · East Feliciana Parish (35 mi).