Welsh, Louisiana

Welsh population, 2020 to 2024

Welsh lost 55 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -20.

Welsh covers 6.32 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 518 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Welsh is less dense than the typical town.

What county Welsh is in

All of Welsh's residents live in Jefferson Davis Parish, which had 31,436 residents in 2024. Welsh holds 10.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Welsh

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Welsh by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 70591. 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 Welsh is

The Census internal point of Welsh is at 30.235600, -92.812400. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 98.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jennings, LA (9,280 people), 9.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lafayette, LA, 46.9 miles away.

Daylight in Welsh

At 30.24° N, Welsh 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 Welsh

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Jennings, 9.2 miles away, with 9,280 people.