Sterlington, Louisiana

Sterlington population, 2020 to 2024

Sterlington added 560 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +28.0%. In the latest year it moved by +189.

Sterlington covers 2.83 square miles of land, for 904 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Sterlington is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sterlington is in

All of Sterlington's residents live in Ouachita Parish, which had 157,874 residents in 2024. Sterlington holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sterlington

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sterlington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 71280. 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 Sterlington is

The Census internal point of Sterlington is at 32.688900, -92.060300. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 162.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bastrop, LA (8,922 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 102.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sterlington

At 32.69° N, Sterlington gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sterlington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Bastrop, 10.7 miles away, with 8,922 people.