Webster Parish area

Population and density of Webster Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 34,948 people lived in Webster Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,345 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #31 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 36,965, the population has declined by 2,017 (−5.5%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 593.3 square miles of land, that is 59 people per square mile (23 per km²), placing Webster Parish #1,399 nationally for density and #28 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 11 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 Webster Parish

11 incorporated places lie at least partly in Webster Parish. Together they are home to 20,202 people (57.8%); the other 14,746 (42.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Minden city, with 11,103 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Webster Parish is a central county of the Minden, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Webster Parish is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 593.3 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #357 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #392 by population. It belongs to the Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden, LA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Webster Parish; 10 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

710187102171023710247103871039710557106771071710727107371075

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 Webster Parish

Webster Parish shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Arkansas. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Bossier Parish (839.6 mi²) and the smallest is Lafayette County (529.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Webster Parish forms a block of 4,294.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.8%.

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

Webster Parish has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 73 areas the size of Webster Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.4 miles (39.2 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 Webster Parish?

Webster Parish has more land than 1,574 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 Webster Parish at #1,697 nationally by total area, 49 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 3.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.3 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 Webster 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.