Erath, Louisiana

Erath population, 2020 to 2024

Erath lost 64 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -9.

Erath covers 1.76 square miles of land, for 1,111 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Erath is less dense than the typical town.

What county Erath is in

All of Erath's residents live in Vermilion Parish, which had 57,641 residents in 2024. Erath holds 3.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Erath

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Erath by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 70533. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Erath is

The Census internal point of Erath is at 29.958800, -92.037400. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 61.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Abbeville, LA (10,902 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lafayette, LA, 17.1 miles away.

Daylight in Erath

At 29.96° N, Erath 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 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Erath

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Delcambre, 2.8 miles away, with 1,773 people.