Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Morehouse Parish population, land area and income

Morehouse Parish had 23,787 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 795.0 square miles of land. It ranks 37th of 64 in Louisiana by population and 20th by land area. That works out to 29.9 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and below the national county median.

The median county-equivalent in Louisiana has 31,591 residents; Morehouse Parish is somewhat smaller.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $37,255 is in the bottom quarter among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Morehouse Parish's population changed since 2020

Morehouse Parish lost 1,673 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 6.6%. That ranks 61st of 64 in Louisiana for growth. The median Louisiana county changed by -2.3%, and the state as a whole by -1.2%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Morehouse Parish recorded 1,109 births and 1,816 deaths, a natural change of -707. Net international migration added +30 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -1,158. The largest single component was domestic migration, which removed 1,158 people.

Where Morehouse Parish is

The Census internal point of Morehouse Parish is at 32.820000, -91.800400. It sits in UTM zone 15N. The map shades Louisiana's 64 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Morehouse Parish outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Morehouse Parish

One incorporated place of 1,000+ people has residents in Morehouse Parish, 8,922 people together, or 38% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside Morehouse Parish; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is Bastrop with 8,922.

Counties bordering Morehouse Parish

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 7 neighbors for Morehouse Parish, including 3 across a state line. The most populous is Ouachita Parish, LA, with 157,874 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Ouachita Parish

  157,874 people

  31 mi SW

• AR

  Union County, AR

  37,008 people

  52 mi WNW

• Union Parish

  20,617 people

  33 mi W

• Richland Parish

  19,643 people

  28 mi S

• AR

  Ashley County, AR

  17,984 people

  26 mi N

• AR

  Chicot County, AR

  9,272 people

  42 mi NE

• West Carroll Parish

  9,254 people

  20 mi E

Distance to Baton Rouge and the nearest big city

Baton Rouge is 167.2 miles SSE of Morehouse Parish's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS (population 141,449), 98.8 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Monroe, LA (population 46,622), 26.3 miles away.

Morehouse Parish FIPS code

The FIPS code of Morehouse Parish is 22067: state code 22 for Louisiana plus parish code 067. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $37,255.