Walker, Louisiana

Walker population, 2020 to 2024

Walker added 35 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Walker is 55% of it.

Walker covers 6.59 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 971 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Walker is less dense than the typical town.

What county Walker is in

All of Walker's residents live in Livingston Parish, which had 152,886 residents in 2024. Walker holds 4.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walker

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Walker by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 70785. 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 Walker is

The Census internal point of Walker is at 30.486400, -90.865600. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 19.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Denham Springs, LA (9,321 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baton Rouge, LA, 16.3 miles away.

Daylight in Walker

At 30.49° N, Walker gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Walker

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Denham Springs, 5.6 miles away, with 9,321 people.