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NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

Louisiana

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
4,738,583
people (GHSL 2025)
122,246 km²
area
1.4%
of United States of America
64
units inside

01Map

Inside Louisiana

The 64 ADM2 units of Louisiana.

FIG 1 · 64 units inside Louisiana
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

4,738,583

1.4% of United States of America.

People · WorldPop 2025

4,723,949

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

122,246 km²

39 people per km².

குறியீடு

US-LA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,774,539

people on land at or below 10 m, 37.4% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

64 units inside Louisiana

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Acadia – 82,233 65,304 1,702.04 48 1.7% 42,886
Allen – 23,068 20,795 1,991.79 12 0.5% 62
Ascension – 118,995 133,754 782.99 152 2.5% 86,266
Assumption – 22,434 20,668 946.47 24 0.5% 21,637
Avoyelles – 37,126 38,639 2,244.43 17 0.8% 2
Beauregard – 32,280 37,825 3,021.51 11 0.7% 81
Bienville – 12,328 11,627 2,130.33 6 0.3% 0
Bossier – 121,592 135,909 2,251.27 54 2.6% 0
Caddo – 263,227 223,319 2,423.1 109 5.6% 0
Calcasieu – 171,554 232,793 2,836.08 60 3.6% 102,563
Caldwell – 8,345 9,073 1,402.2 6 0.2% 0
Cameron – 5,354 4,777 4,254.24 1 0.1% 4,800
Catahoula – 8,582 6,957 1,922.13 4 0.2% 5
Claiborne – 15,154 11,635 1,990.77 8 0.3% 0
Concordia – 19,557 18,174 1,934.5 10 0.4% 0
De Soto – 23,780 26,412 2,322.67 10 0.5% 0
East Baton Rouge – 561,541 463,728 1,219.72 460 11.8% 45,569
East Carroll – 6,462 7,378 1,143.65 6 0.1% 0
East Feliciana – 19,085 20,833 1,182.35 16 0.4% 0
Evangeline – 27,518 29,546 1,760.83 16 0.6% 21
Franklin – 18,186 19,129 1,646.07 11 0.4% 0
Grant – 20,697 22,510 1,720.1 12 0.4% 2
Iberia – 62,793 65,368 1,617.5 39 1.3% 51,039
Iberville – 26,716 24,260 1,690.74 16 0.6% 19,367
Jackson – 14,368 14,003 1,504.05 10 0.3% 0
Jefferson – 462,791 407,185 1,467.65 315 9.8% 376,130
Jefferson Davis – 27,994 32,772 1,707.92 16 0.6% 20,824
Lafayette – 340,517 249,723 701.82 485 7.2% 45,798
Lafourche – 75,753 79,943 3,302.96 23 1.6% 73,266
LaSalle – 13,456 15,053 1,712.9 8 0.3% 66
Lincoln – 42,481 50,373 1,223.54 35 0.9% 0
Livingston – 173,776 162,504 1,788.87 97 3.7% 12,647
Madison – 12,606 10,979 1,688.01 7 0.3% 0
Morehouse – 23,520 23,187 2,087.84 11 0.5% 0
Natchitoches – 35,894 37,092 3,377.15 11 0.8% 0
Orleans – 437,176 464,124 905.32 483 9.2% 372,387
Ouachita – 135,645 166,160 1,635.81 83 2.9% 0
Plaquemines – 24,488 24,745 3,420.97 7 0.5% 16,196
Pointe Coupee – 21,810 20,872 1,532.73 14 0.5% 7,607
Rapides – 115,033 127,755 3,529.99 33 2.4% 2
Red River – 8,339 6,878 1,041.09 8 0.2% 0
Richland – 16,073 17,285 1,464.92 11 0.3% 0
Sabine – 22,045 21,015 2,632.22 8 0.5% 0
St. Bernard – 24,862 35,649 1,701.57 15 0.5% 20,591
St. Charles – 64,490 51,240 1,031.07 63 1.4% 57,161
St. Helena – 11,116 11,777 1,061.56 10 0.2% 0
St. James – 18,676 17,102 668.13 28 0.4% 17,889
St. John the Baptist – 44,248 41,752 1,065.51 42 0.9% 42,119
St. Landry – 67,349 75,752 2,433.82 28 1.4% 9,728
St. Martin – 57,816 56,380 2,116.48 27 1.2% 45,785
St. Mary – 47,810 44,734 1,913.05 25 1% 43,664
St. Tammany – 219,802 288,808 2,819.19 78 4.6% 49,545
Tangipahoa – 108,442 135,703 2,191.95 49 2.3% 5,019
Tensas – 4,196 3,211 1,669.32 3 0.1% 0
Terrebonne – 112,417 123,562 3,933.17 29 2.4% 106,328
Union – 18,945 18,939 2,345.91 8 0.4% 0
Vermilion – 49,706 52,730 3,366.82 15 1% 48,394
Vernon – 43,231 43,548 3,466.71 12 0.9% 0
Washington – 40,011 42,230 1,751.12 23 0.8% 0
Webster – 32,535 30,085 1,592.38 20 0.7% 0
West Baton Rouge – 24,968 26,833 528.2 47 0.5% 17,327
West Carroll – 9,342 7,939 938.57 10 0.2% 0
West Feliciana – 13,922 21,811 1,104.25 13 0.3% 189
Winn – 13,179 12,689 2,478.66 5 0.3% 0
04வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
2,591.3 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
3 H3 cells
Major roads
3,808.5 H3 cells
Railways
2,152.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,117.5 H3 cells
05இடர்

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Louisiana publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
நாடுகள்
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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