Compare Louisiana sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 64 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-09-26.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia Parish | 57,674 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Allen Parish | 22,798 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ascension Parish | 126,973 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Assumption Parish | 21,067 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Avoyelles Parish | 39,529 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Beauregard Parish | 36,553 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bienville Parish | 12,958 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bossier Parish | 128,877 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Caddo Parish | 236,259 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Calcasieu Parish | 210,770 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Caldwell Parish | 9,658 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cameron Parish | 5,447 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Catahoula Parish | 8,895 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Claiborne Parish | 14,203 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Concordia Parish | 18,677 | — | — | — | — | — |
| De Soto Parish | 26,821 | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Baton Rouge Parish | 454,369 | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Carroll Parish | 7,371 | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Feliciana Parish | 19,452 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Evangeline Parish | 32,335 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin Parish | 19,752 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grant Parish | 22,185 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Iberia Parish | 69,958 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Iberville Parish | 30,210 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jackson Parish | 15,093 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jefferson Davis Parish | 32,277 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jefferson Parish | 436,171 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lafayette Parish | 243,175 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lafourche Parish | 97,220 | — | — | — | — | — |
| LaSalle Parish | 14,764 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lincoln Parish | 48,323 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Livingston Parish | 143,425 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Madison Parish | 10,028 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Morehouse Parish | 25,438 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Natchitoches Parish | 37,478 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orleans Parish | 380,408 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ouachita Parish | 159,585 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Plaquemines Parish | 23,305 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pointe Coupee Parish | 20,652 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rapides Parish | 129,536 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Red River Parish | 7,631 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Richland Parish | 20,028 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sabine Parish | 22,209 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Bernard Parish | 44,038 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Charles Parish | 52,191 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Helena Parish | 10,872 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. James Parish | 20,090 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. John the Baptist Parish | 41,986 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Landry Parish | 82,574 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Martin Parish | 51,856 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Mary Parish | 49,114 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Tammany Parish | 266,168 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tangipahoa Parish | 133,953 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tensas Parish | 4,127 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Terrebonne Parish | 108,862 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Union Parish | 21,049 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vermilion Parish | 57,202 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vernon Parish | 48,452 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington Parish | 45,514 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Webster Parish | 36,761 | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Baton Rouge Parish | 27,377 | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Carroll Parish | 9,800 | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Feliciana Parish | 15,358 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Winn Parish | 13,665 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Louisiana, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. Parish jail data has not yet been loaded for Louisiana. Louisiana has no standalone jail-standards commission; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C), jointly with the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association, sets minimum parish jail standards through its Basic Jail Guidelines program, administered by nine regional team leaders who conduct at least one compliance audit per facility per year, but the program publishes no downloadable, consolidated facility capacity or inspection dataset. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Louisiana. Sheriff names were collected from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association directory and machine-verified against parish sources in July 2026; all 64 parishes are named, with none appointed or vacant. Six sheriffs' full names, printed in nickname-only form by the association directory, were resolved from parish sources during verification.