Houma, Louisiana

Houma population, 2020 to 2024

Houma lost 1,675 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by -126. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Houma is 2.7 times that size.

Houma covers 14.47 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 2,189 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Houma is denser than the typical town.

What county Houma is in

All of Houma's residents live in Terrebonne Parish, which had 103,864 residents in 2024. Houma holds 30.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Houma

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Houma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70360, 70363. 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 Houma is

The Census internal point of Houma is at 29.578700, -90.708000. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 67.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kenner, LA (64,650 people), 40.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Orleans, LA, 56.8 miles away.

Daylight in Houma

At 29.58° N, Houma gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Houma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Lockport, 11.5 miles away, with 2,351 people.