East Carroll Parish area

Population and density of East Carroll Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,760 people lived in East Carroll Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,750 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #62 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 7,460, the population has declined by 700 (−9.4%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 421.2 square miles of land, that is 16 people per square mile (6.2 per km²), placing East Carroll Parish #2,438 nationally for density and #58 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 40 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 East Carroll Parish

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in East Carroll Parish. Together they are home to 3,147 people (46.6%); the other 3,613 (53.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lake Providence town, with 3,147 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

East Carroll Parish is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in East Carroll Parish; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

71237712547127671286

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 East Carroll Parish

East Carroll Parish shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 3 in Mississippi and Arkansas. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Chicot County (637 mi²) and the smallest is West Carroll Parish (359.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, East Carroll Parish forms a block of 3,598.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.7%.

How big is East Carroll Parish compared with U.S. states?

East Carroll Parish has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 103 areas the size of East Carroll Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.5 miles (33 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 East Carroll Parish?

East Carroll Parish has more land than 817 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 East Carroll Parish at #2,378 nationally by total area, 27 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 4.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 3.7 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 East Carroll 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.