Beauregard Parish area

Population and density of Beauregard Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 36,673 people lived in Beauregard Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,306 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #29 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 36,554, the population has grown by 119 (+0.3%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 1,157.5 square miles of land, that is 32 people per square mile (12 per km²), placing Beauregard Parish #1,952 nationally for density and #41 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 20 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Beauregard Parish

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Beauregard Parish. Together they are home to 10,036 people (27.4%); the other 26,637 (72.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is DeRidder city, with 9,086 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). By land, Merryville town is the largest at 9.789 mi².

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Beauregard Parish. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Beauregard Parish is a central county of the DeRidder, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Beauregard Parish is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 1,157.5 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #147 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #371 by population. It belongs to the Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Beauregard Parish; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

706337063470637706527065370657706607066170662

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Beauregard Parish

Beauregard Parish shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 1 in Texas. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Vernon Parish (1,326.7 mi²) and the smallest is Jefferson Davis Parish (651.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Beauregard Parish forms a block of 5,895.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.6%.

How big is Beauregard Parish compared with U.S. states?

Beauregard Parish has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.7 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Louisiana’s county land could hold about 37 areas the size of Beauregard Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 34 miles (54.8 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Beauregard Parish?

Beauregard Parish has more land than 2,688 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Beauregard Parish at #610 nationally by total area, 76 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.4 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Beauregard Parish in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.