States · Louisiana
Louisiana: every parish, ranked.
The State Screen scores all 64 parishes in Louisiana from 0 to 100 against each other on the four things a homestead can't do without: water, privacy, hazard exposure and access. Nothing is screened out.
Top five parishes
- Tensas Parish
- Winn Parish
- Jackson Parish
- East Carroll Parish
- Bienville Parish
In order, without their scores. Every parish's score, its four sub-scores and the raw numbers behind them are in the free map.
Free for an email address: a Google Earth file with every parish clickable.
What the map says about Louisiana
Rain is rarely the problem in Louisiana: the median parish gets 62 inches a year, and the wettest 67.
Across Louisiana, the typical well is 202 ft deep. In 30% of its parishes the median well is 150 ft or shallower; in 16% it is 400 ft or more.
The hazard that scores worst most often is hurricane, in 55 of 64 parishes.
47% of Louisiana's parishes sit outside every metro commuting ring, and the median one is 14 miles from a town of 5,000.
These are parishes, not parcels. A good score says the region has the water, the quiet and the hazard profile; it says nothing about a particular piece of land's flood zone, access or water source.
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