Morgan City, Louisiana

Morgan City population, 2020 to 2024

Morgan City lost 598 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.2%. In the latest year it moved by -89. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Morgan City is 93% of it.

Morgan City covers 5.98 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 1,808 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Morgan City is denser than the typical town.

What county Morgan City is in

All of Morgan City's residents live in St. Mary Parish, which had 46,799 residents in 2024. Morgan City holds 23.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morgan City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morgan City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70380. 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 Morgan City is

The Census internal point of Morgan City is at 29.710300, -91.191500. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 51.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Thibodaux, LA (15,569 people), 23.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baton Rouge, LA, 50.6 miles away.

Daylight in Morgan City

At 29.71° N, Morgan City gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morgan City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Berwick, 2.7 miles away, with 4,495 people.