Concordia Parish area

Population and density of Concordia Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 17,836 people lived in Concordia Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,010 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #49 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 18,685, the population has declined by 849 (−4.5%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 695.7 square miles of land, that is 26 people per square mile (9.9 per km²), placing Concordia Parish #2,125 nationally for density and #50 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 25 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 Concordia Parish

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Concordia Parish. Together they are home to 7,997 people (44.8%); the other 9,839 (55.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Vidalia town, with 3,925 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Concordia Parish is a central county of the Natchez, MS-LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 54,722 residents on 1,678 square miles of land; Concordia Parish accounts for 41.5% of the land and 32.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #98 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #193 by population.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Concordia Parish; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

713167132671334713437135471373

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 Concordia Parish

Concordia Parish shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 2 in Mississippi. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Avoyelles Parish (831.4 mi²) and the smallest is West Feliciana Parish (403.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Concordia Parish forms a block of 4,938.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.1%.

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

Concordia Parish has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.5 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 62 areas the size of Concordia Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 26.4 miles (42.4 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 Concordia Parish?

Concordia Parish has more land than 1,884 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 Concordia Parish at #1,284 nationally by total area, 54 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 6.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 5.7 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 Concordia 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.