Abbeville, Louisiana

Abbeville population, 2020 to 2024

Abbeville lost 264 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -14. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Abbeville is 93% of it.

Abbeville covers 6.05 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,802 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Abbeville is denser than the typical town.

What county Abbeville is in

All of Abbeville's residents live in Vermilion Parish, which had 57,641 residents in 2024. Abbeville holds 18.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Abbeville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Abbeville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70510. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Abbeville is

The Census internal point of Abbeville is at 29.975400, -92.127200. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 65.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Youngsville, LA (19,038 people), 11.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lafayette, LA, 17.0 miles away.

Daylight in Abbeville

At 29.98° N, Abbeville gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Abbeville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Erath, 5.5 miles away, with 1,956 people.