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Lafayette Parish (French: Paroisse de Lafayette) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 241,753, [1] up from 221,578 at the 2010 United States census. [2] The parish seat and largest city is Lafayette. [3] The parish was founded in 1823. [4]
District Seats: Acadia Parish Courthouse (Crowley, LA), Lafayette Parish Courthouse (Lafayette, LA), Vermilion Parish Courthouse (Abbeville, LA) Current Judges [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Title
The Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal are the intermediate appellate courts for the state of Louisiana. There are five circuits, each covering a different group of parishes. [1] Each circuit is subdivided into three districts. [2] As with the Louisiana Supreme Court, the regular judicial terms on the courts of appeal are ten years.
Lafayette has a consolidated city–parish government, known as the Lafayette Consolidated Government; [123] parish voters agreed to consolidation of the city and parish governments in 1996. [ 38 ] [ 42 ] Lafayette's chief executive was initially called the city-parish president, but is now known as the mayor-president for the Lafayette ...
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Lafayette Elementary School (Lafayette, Louisiana) Lafayette Hardware Store; Alexandre Latiolais House; Louisiana's 3rd congressional district; Louisiana's 22nd State Senate district; Louisiana's 23rd State Senate district; Louisiana's 24th State Senate district; Louisiana's 26th State Senate district
District 23 is based in Lafayette Parish, including much of southern Lafayette as well as the suburban towns of Broussard, Scott, and Youngsville. [2] The district is located entirely within Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, and overlaps with the 31st, 43rd, 44th, 45th, and 48th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. [4]
The approximately 3,408.5 square miles (8,828 km 2) metropolitan area centers on Lafayette Parish, which contains the city of Lafayette—the largest economic and cultural center of Acadiana—with a consolidated city-parish population of 244,390 in 2019; [4] the city proper's population was 121,374 in 2020. [5]