7,238 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.6% since 2020)
389 square miles of land · 19 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.
11 active community water systems list Red River Parish in the area they serve, reporting 12,339 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF COUSHATTA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1081001 | 3,300 served |
| FAIRVIEW UNION WATER SYSTEM surface water · private · LA1081012 | 2,346 served |
| BAYOU PIERRE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1081008 | 1,371 served |
| MARTIN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1081006 | 1,350 served |
| VILLAGE OF HALL SUMMIT WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1081004 | 756 served |
| SOCIAL SPRINGS WATER SYSTEM NORTH groundwater · private · LA1081009 | 744 served |
| SOCIAL SPRINGS WATER SYSTEM SOUTH groundwater · private · LA1081011 | 576 served |
| HICKORY GROVE WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · private · LA1081010 | 570 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 50 people were held in Red River Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 1,091 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 61.
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 Red River Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $39.6 million — $33.6 million to run schools, about $23,766 per student, plus $4.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31 million local (mostly property tax), $5.6 million state, $7.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.2 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 Red River Parish about $4 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.
61 bridges in Red River Parish: 15 in good condition, 30 fair, and 16 poor (26.2%). “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.
| US0084 over BAYOU PIERRE · built 1955 | 2,013 vehicles a day |
| LA0480 over BOGGY LAKE · built 1975 | 2,011 vehicles a day |
| LA0509 over WATSON BAYOU · built 1978 | 1,975 vehicles a day |
| LA0509 over CROOKED BAYOU · built 1978 | 1,975 vehicles a day |
| LA0514 over BAYOU CHICOT · built 1970 | 772 vehicles a day |
| LA0507 over GRAND BAYOU RELIEF · built 1976 | 691 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9.3 million of work in Red River Parish in fiscal 2025, about $1,221 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 Red River 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 Red River Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: De Soto Parish (23 mi) · Bienville Parish (24 mi) · Natchitoches Parish (30 mi) · Sabine Parish (39 mi) · Winn Parish (43 mi) · Webster Parish (44 mi).