21,746 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
867 square miles of land · 25 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.
17 active community water systems list Sabine Parish in the area they serve, reporting 40,254 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SABINE PARISH WATER DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · LA1085036 | 7,833 served |
| EBARB WWKS DIST # 1 - AIMWELL AREA buys groundwater · local government · LA1085059 | 6,738 served |
| SOUTH TOLEDO BEND WATER DISTRICT groundwater · private · LA1085055 | 5,943 served |
| TOWN OF MANY WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · LA1085016 | 4,428 served |
| BELMONT WATERWORKS INC groundwater · private · LA1085053 | 2,805 served |
| PENDLETON WATER ASSOCIATION surface water · private · LA1085046 | 2,634 served |
| TOWN OF ZWOLLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1085032 | 2,520 served |
| EBARB WWKS DIST #1 - NORTH EBARB groundwater · local government · LA1085043 | 1,761 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 176 people were held in Sabine Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 1,333 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 117.
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 Sabine Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $69.9 million — $66 million to run schools, about $15,948 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.8 million local (mostly property tax), $27.1 million state, $15.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.9 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 Sabine Parish about $13.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
195 bridges in Sabine Parish: 101 in good condition, 72 fair, and 22 poor (11.3%). “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.
| LA0006 over SAN JOSE CREEK · built 1950 | 6,363 vehicles a day |
| LA0175 over BAYOU SAN MIGUEL · built 1950 | 1,587 vehicles a day |
| LA1215 over TOLEDO BEND LAKE · built 1968 | 1,532 vehicles a day |
| LA1215 over TOLEDO BEND LAKE · built 1967 | 1,532 vehicles a day |
| LA0118 over WEST TORO CREEK · built 1985 | 1,471 vehicles a day |
| LA0474 over MIDKIFF CREEK · built 1958 | 1,105 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.5 million of work in Sabine Parish in fiscal 2025, about $292 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 Sabine 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 Sabine Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Sabine County, TX (23 mi) · Natchitoches Parish (30 mi) · De Soto Parish (36 mi) · San Augustine County, TX (38 mi) · Shelby County, TX (38 mi) · Vernon Parish (38 mi).