Vermilion Parish area

Population and density of Vermilion Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 57,671 people lived in Vermilion Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #928 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #18 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 57,007, the population has grown by 664 (+1.2%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 1,172.1 square miles of land, that is 49 people per square mile (19 per km²), placing Vermilion Parish #1,566 nationally for density and #30 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 13 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 Vermilion Parish

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Vermilion Parish. Together they are home to 22,441 people (38.9%); the other 35,230 (61.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Abbeville city, with 10,861 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Maurice village grew fastest since then (+51.6%).

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

Metropolitan area

Vermilion Parish is an outlying county of the Lafayette, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 423,758 residents on 2,833.7 square miles of land; Vermilion Parish accounts for 41.4% of the land and 13.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #104 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #133 by population. It belongs to the Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

705107052670528705297053370542705487055570560705757057870592

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 Vermilion Parish

Vermilion Parish shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Cameron Parish (1,290.7 mi²) and the smallest is Lafayette Parish (268.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Vermilion Parish forms a block of 4,613.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 25.4%.

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

Vermilion Parish has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.7 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Louisiana’s county land could hold about 37 areas the size of Vermilion Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 34.2 miles (55.1 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 Vermilion Parish?

Vermilion Parish has more land than 2,698 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 Vermilion Parish at #438 nationally by total area, 86 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 23.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 22.3 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 Vermilion 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.