Sulphur, Louisiana

Sulphur population, 2020 to 2024

Sulphur lost 1,247 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.7%. In the latest year it moved by +96. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Sulphur is 1.8 times that size.

Sulphur covers 11.24 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,830 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Sulphur is denser than the typical town.

What county Sulphur is in

All of Sulphur's residents live in Calcasieu Parish, which had 206,861 residents in 2024. Sulphur holds 9.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sulphur

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sulphur by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 70663, 70665. 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 Sulphur is

The Census internal point of Sulphur is at 30.229800, -93.356300. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 130.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Charles, LA (81,157 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 48.2 miles away.

Daylight in Sulphur

At 30.23° N, Sulphur 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 Sulphur

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Westlake, 5.9 miles away, with 4,735 people.