Cameron Parish area

Population and density of Cameron Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,718 people lived in Cameron Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,914 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #63 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 5,616, the population has declined by 898 (−16%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 1,290.7 square miles of land, that is 3.7 people per square mile (1.4 per km²), placing Cameron Parish #2,937 nationally for density and #64 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 175 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 Cameron Parish

Cameron Parish has no incorporated cities, towns or villages. All 4,718 of its residents live in unincorporated communities, which the Census Bureau describes as census-designated places rather than municipalities.

Metropolitan area

Cameron Parish is an outlying county of the Lake Charles, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 244,655 residents on 3,006.4 square miles of land; Cameron Parish accounts for 42.9% of the land and 1.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #99 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #201 by population. It belongs to the Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Cameron Parish; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7054270549706077063070631706327064370645

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 Cameron Parish

Cameron Parish shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Texas. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Vermilion Parish (1,172.1 mi²) and the smallest is Orange County (333.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Cameron Parish forms a block of 5,389 mi² of land, of which it holds 24%.

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

Cameron Parish has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.2 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.5 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Louisiana’s county land could hold about 33 areas the size of Cameron Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 35.9 miles (57.8 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 Cameron Parish?

Cameron Parish has more land than 2,757 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 Cameron Parish at #330 nationally by total area, 135 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 33.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 32.2 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 Cameron 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.