Bossier Parish area

Population and density of Bossier Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 131,867 people lived in Bossier Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #504 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #12 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 128,655, the population has grown by 3,212 (+2.5%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 839.6 square miles of land, that is 157 people per square mile (61 per km²), placing Bossier Parish #752 nationally for density and #14 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 4.1 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 Bossier Parish

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Bossier Parish. Together they are home to 73,803 people (56%); the other 58,064 (44%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Bossier City city, with 63,259 residents in the county. The county seat, Benton town, has 2,118 residents. By land, Shreveport city is the largest at 108.2 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Haughton town grew fastest since then (+6.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Bossier Parish is a central county of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 383,474 residents on 2,595.6 square miles of land; Bossier Parish accounts for 32.3% of the land and 34.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #127 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #147 by population. It belongs to the Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Bossier Parish; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

710067101871023710377105171064710677107171075711047110571107711107111171112

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 Bossier Parish

Bossier Parish shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Arkansas. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Caddo Parish (879.5 mi²) and the smallest is Red River Parish (389 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bossier Parish forms a block of 4,666.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 18%.

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

Bossier Parish has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 51 areas the size of Bossier Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29 miles (46.6 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 Bossier Parish?

Bossier Parish has more land than 2,227 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 Bossier Parish at #1,048 nationally by total area, 53 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 3.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2 percentage points higher. 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 Bossier 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.