44,783 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.1% since 2020)
378 square miles of land · 119 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.
1 active community water system list St. Bernard Parish in the area they serve, reporting 44,783 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ST BERNARD PARISH WATERWORKS surface water · local government · LA1087001 | 44,783 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 213 people were held in St. Bernard Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 736 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 207.
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 St. Bernard Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $117.3 million — $115.8 million to run schools, about $13,986 per student, plus $901,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $49.5 million local (mostly property tax), $49.2 million state, $24.8 million federal.
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 St. Bernard Parish about $34.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
47 bridges in St. Bernard Parish: 26 in good condition, 18 fair, and 3 poor (6.4%). “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.
| LA0039 over RR CANAL · built 1991 | 47,739 vehicles a day |
| PATRICIA ST over CHALMETTE VISTA CANAL · built 1960 | 4,562 vehicles a day |
| LA0300 over BAYOU LALOUTRE · built 1967 | 891 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $41.8 million of work in St. Bernard Parish in fiscal 2025, about $954 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 St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hancock County, MS (35 mi) · Harrison County, MS (36 mi) · Orleans Parish (41 mi) · Plaquemines Parish (48 mi) · Jackson County, MS (53 mi) · St. Tammany Parish (53 mi).