Richwood, Louisiana

Richwood population, 2020 to 2024

Richwood lost 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Richwood covers 2.52 square miles of land, for 1,512 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Richwood is close to the typical town.

What county Richwood is in

All of Richwood's residents live in Ouachita Parish, which had 157,874 residents in 2024. Richwood holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Richwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 71202. 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 Richwood is

The Census internal point of Richwood is at 32.448600, -92.077300. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 147.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monroe, LA (46,622 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 100.0 miles away.

Daylight in Richwood

At 32.45° N, Richwood gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Richwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Monroe, 4.9 miles away, with 46,622 people.