West Feliciana Parish area

Population and density of West Feliciana Parish

The Census Bureau estimates that 15,134 people lived in West Feliciana Parish on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,155 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #52 of 64 in Louisiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 15,305, the population has declined by 171 (−1.1%), compared with −0.9% for Louisiana as a whole.

With 403.2 square miles of land, that is 38 people per square mile (14 per km²), placing West Feliciana Parish #1,810 nationally for density and #36 in Louisiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Louisiana median is 48. Put another way, there are about 17 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 West Feliciana Parish

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in West Feliciana Parish. Together they are home to 1,484 people (9.8%); the other 13,650 (90.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is St. Francisville town, with 1,484 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

West 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; West Feliciana Parish accounts for 9.2% of the land and 1.7% 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

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in West Feliciana Parish, and each lies mostly inside the county.

70712707757078270787

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering West Feliciana Parish

West Feliciana Parish shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in Mississippi. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Avoyelles Parish (831.4 mi²) and the smallest is West Baton Rouge Parish (192.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, West Feliciana Parish forms a block of 3,809.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.6%.

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

West 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 2.6 times as much. Louisiana’s county land could hold about 107 areas the size of West Feliciana Parish.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.1 miles (32.3 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 West Feliciana Parish?

West Feliciana Parish has more land than 713 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 West Feliciana Parish at #2,460 nationally by total area, 49 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 5.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4.2 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 West 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.