Jennings, Louisiana

Jennings population, 2020 to 2024

Jennings lost 518 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.3%. In the latest year it moved by -87. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 50th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Jennings is 79% of it.

Jennings covers 10.56 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 879 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Jennings is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jennings is in

All of Jennings's residents live in Jefferson Davis Parish, which had 31,436 residents in 2024. Jennings holds 29.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jennings

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jennings by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70546. 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 Jennings is

The Census internal point of Jennings is at 30.224000, -92.658300. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 89.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Crowley, LA (11,216 people), 16.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lafayette, LA, 37.7 miles away.

Daylight in Jennings

At 30.22° N, Jennings gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jennings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Welsh, 9.2 miles away, with 3,275 people.