Caddo Parish area

Population and density of Caddo Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 224,226 people lived in Caddo Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #323 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #6 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 237,944, the population has declined by 13,718 (−5.8%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 879.5 square miles of land, that is 255 people per square mile (98 per km²), placing Caddo Parish #565 nationally for density and #8 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 2.5 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 Caddo Parish

11 incorporated places lie at least partly in Caddo Parish. Together they are home to 185,098 people (82.5%); the other 39,128 (17.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Shreveport city, with 173,180 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county).

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

Metropolitan area

Caddo 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; Caddo Parish accounts for 33.9% of the land and 58.5% 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

26 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Caddo Parish; 24 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7100471007710097102971033710437104471046710477105171060710617106971082711017110371104711057110671107711087110971115711187111971129

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 Caddo Parish

Caddo Parish shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 5 in Texas and Arkansas. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is Cass County (936.9 mi²) and the smallest is Marion County (380.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Caddo Parish forms a block of 6,637.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.3%.

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

Caddo 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 49 areas the size of Caddo Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.7 miles (47.7 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 Caddo Parish?

Caddo Parish has more land than 2,312 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 Caddo Parish at #869 nationally by total area, 41 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 6.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 5 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 Caddo 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.