9,254 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.5% since 2020)
360 square miles of land · 26 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.
7 active community water systems list West Carroll Parish in the area they serve, reporting 14,565 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NEW CARROLL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1123005 | 3,507 served |
| TOWN OF OAK GROVE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1123006 | 2,955 served |
| PIONEER DARNELL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1123007 | 2,190 served |
| GOODWILL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1123004 | 1,929 served |
| FISKE UNION WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1123002 | 1,830 served |
| VILLAGE OF FOREST WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1123003 | 1,560 served |
| VILLAGE OF EPPS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1123001 | 594 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 28 people were held in West Carroll Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 480 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 26.
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 West Carroll Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $26.8 million — $26.5 million to run schools, about $14,205 per student, plus $301,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.2 million local (mostly property tax), $13 million state, $7.1 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost West Carroll Parish about $4.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
88 bridges in West Carroll Parish: 21 in good condition, 61 fair, and 6 poor (6.8%). “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.
| LA0002 over COLEWA CREEK · built 1953 | 2,725 vehicles a day |
| LA0585 over CREEK · built 1948 | 422 vehicles a day |
| LA0582 over CREEK · built 1956 | 355 vehicles a day |
| LA0588 over BOGGY BAYOU · built 1983 | 340 vehicles a day |
| LA0586 over TIGER BAYOU · built 1959 | 242 vehicles a day |
| LA0589 over ALLIGATOR BAYOU · built 1957 | 233 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2 million of work in West Carroll Parish in fiscal 2025, about $203 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 West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: East Carroll Parish (13 mi) · Morehouse Parish (20 mi) · Issaquena County, MS (26 mi) · Richland Parish (31 mi) · Ashley County, AR (33 mi) · Madison Parish (33 mi).