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Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] As of 2020, the combined population of the five parish area was 313,951. [3]
In 1807, the Territorial Council revised the 12-county system to create 19 civil parishes. [2] The original twelve counties defined by the Territorial Legislative Council in 1805 were: [2] Acadia County – Parishes of St. James and the Ascension (also known as the First and Second Acadian Coasts). In 1807, divided into Ascension and St. James ...
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
Louisiana has the fourth lowest per capita income in the United States of America, at $16,912 (2000). Its personal per capita income is $26,100 (2003). Louisiana parishes ranked by per capita income
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, ten metropolitan statistical areas, and nine micropolitan statistical areas in Louisiana. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS CSA , comprising the area around New Orleans in the southeast region of the state.
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
Located in the south central Acadiana region, it covers five parishes. At the 2020 U.S. census , 478,384 people lived in the metropolitan area, [ 2 ] making it the 116th most populous in the United States and one of Louisiana's fastest growing metropolises; in 2010, its population was 273,738 and it outpaced the Shreveport–Bossier City ...
Vernon Parish map, 1895. [8] Old First National Bank Building in downtown Leesville, LA, now the Courthouse Annex building. In the late 1890s the timber industry, which was the dominant industry in the parish from its creation, began to boom with the construction of the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1897. It increased access to markets.