15,155 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
403 square miles of land · 38 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.
3 active community water systems list West Feliciana Parish in the area they serve, reporting 20,711 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEST FELICIANA CONSOL WWKS DISTRICT 13 groundwater · local government · LA1125010 | 12,045 served |
| LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY groundwater · state · LA1125005 | 6,362 served |
| TOWN OF ST FRANCISVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1125006 | 2,304 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 112 people were held in West Feliciana Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 1,011 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 34.
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 Feliciana Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $53.3 million — $42.1 million to run schools, about $18,741 per student, plus $8.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.4 million local (mostly property tax), $10.3 million state, $4.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $50 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 West Feliciana Parish about $9.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
108 bridges in West Feliciana Parish: 52 in good condition, 38 fair, and 18 poor (16.7%). “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.
| LA0966 over CHANEY CREEK · built 1978 | 857 vehicles a day |
| LA0421 over ALEXANDER CREEK W · built 1971 | 739 vehicles a day |
| LA0421 over THOM CREEK · built 1968 | 739 vehicles a day |
| LA0965 over THOMPSON CRK TRIB · built 1969 | 525 vehicles a day |
| LA0965 over THOMPSON CREEK TRIBUTARY · built 1973 | 525 vehicles a day |
| LA0969 over BONEY CREEK · built 1983 | 385 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.3 million of work in West Feliciana Parish in fiscal 2025, about $218 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 Feliciana 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 Feliciana Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Pointe Coupee Parish (16 mi) · Wilkinson County, MS (21 mi) · East Feliciana Parish (23 mi) · West Baton Rouge Parish (29 mi) · East Baton Rouge Parish (30 mi) · Avoyelles Parish (36 mi).