East Feliciana Parish area

Population and density of East Feliciana Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 18,911 people lived in East Feliciana Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,945 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #48 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 19,531, the population has declined by 620 (−3.2%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 453.3 square miles of land, that is 42 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing East Feliciana Parish #1,716 nationally for density and #35 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 15 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 Feliciana Parish

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in East Feliciana Parish. Together they are home to 6,762 people (35.8%); the other 12,149 (64.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Jackson town, with 3,904 residents in the county. The county seat, Clinton town, has 1,265 residents. By land, Slaughter town is the largest at 5.466 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

East Feliciana Parish is an outlying county of the Baton Rouge, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 10 county equivalents have 888,699 residents on 4,367.8 square miles of land; East Feliciana Parish accounts for 10.4% of the land and 2.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #61 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #68 by population. It belongs to the Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

7072270730707487076170775707777078970791

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 Feliciana Parish

East Feliciana Parish shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Mississippi. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Amite County (730.1 mi²) and the smallest is West Baton Rouge Parish (192.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, East Feliciana Parish forms a block of 3,321 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.6%.

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

East Feliciana Parish has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.3 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 95 areas the size of East Feliciana Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 21.3 miles (34.3 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 Feliciana Parish?

East Feliciana Parish has more land than 964 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 Feliciana Parish at #2,323 nationally by total area, 65 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 0.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 percentage points lower. 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 Feliciana 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.