Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

A parish in Louisiana, ranked 37 of 64 by population.

ParishFIPS 22067

Within Louisiana
Morehouse Parish, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Bastrop, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
23,705
-1,754 (-6.9%) since 2020
Land area
795
square miles. A further 1.4% of the total area is water
Population density
29.8
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Bastrop
Seat of county government.
Established
1844
181 years ago
Largest city
Bastrop city
Population 8,908.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Morehouse Parish with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 739 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Morehouse Parish ranks

Position among the 64 parishes of Louisiana, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn LouisianaNationally
Population23,70537th of 641,665th of 3,144
Land area795 sq mi20th of 641,078th of 3,144
Population density29.8 per sq mi44th of 641,929th of 3,144
Median household income$39,45457th of 643,077th of 3,143

Full data for Morehouse Parish

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population23,705Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 202025,459Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?25,628Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area795 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area11.2 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area806.1 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?29.8 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$39,454American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$118,800American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age40.4American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households9,769American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units11,898American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-98
268 births, 366 deaths
Net migration
-118
More people moved out than moved in.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 7 areas bordering Morehouse Parish

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
West Carroll ParishLouisiana36 mi9,156
Ouachita ParishLouisiana36 mi158,542
Ashley CountyArkansas35 mi17,831
Richland ParishLouisiana30 mi19,582
Union ParishLouisiana26 mi20,561
Chicot CountyArkansas1.4 mi9,107
Union CountyArkansasa single point36,926

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 64 parishes of Louisiana

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.