57,641 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.2% since 2020)
1,172 square miles of land · 49 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 Vermilion Parish in the area they serve, reporting 70,406 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VERMILION WATERWORKS DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · LA1113034 | 24,132 served |
| CITY OF ABBEVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1113001 | 14,217 served |
| MAGNOLIA PLANTATION WATER SYSTEM INC groundwater · private · LA1113032 | 8,769 served |
| SOUTHEAST WATERWORKS DISTRICT 2 groundwater · local government · LA1113031 | 6,810 served |
| CITY OF KAPLAN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1113009 | 4,340 served |
| TOWN OF MAURICE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1113019 | 3,450 served |
| TOWN OF ERATH WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1113005 | 2,985 served |
| TOWN OF DELCAMBRE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1113004 | 2,457 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 142 people were held in Vermilion Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 397 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 153.
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 Vermilion Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $143 million — $133.8 million to run schools, about $13,778 per student, plus $7.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $57.1 million local (mostly property tax), $64.7 million state, $37.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $21.2 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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Vermilion Parish about $44.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
260 bridges in Vermilion Parish: 116 in good condition, 118 fair, and 26 poor (10.0%). “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.
| LA0014-B over VERMILION R/ABBEVILLE · built 1964 | 19,800 vehicles a day |
| LA0339 over Laports Coulee · built 1950 | 4,990 vehicles a day |
| LA0082 over LONG DITCH · built 1958 | 2,899 vehicles a day |
| LA0082 over TURF BAYOU · built 1958 | 2,899 vehicles a day |
| LA0082 over MIDDLE CANAL · built 1958 | 2,899 vehicles a day |
| LA0082 over MILLER CANAL · built 1958 | 2,899 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.8 million of work in Vermilion Parish in fiscal 2025, about $137 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 Vermilion 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 Vermilion Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lafayette Parish (32 mi) · Iberia Parish (32 mi) · Acadia Parish (34 mi) · Jefferson Davis Parish (44 mi) · St. Martin Parish (48 mi) · Cameron Parish (51 mi).