St. Landry Parish’s population was 82,540 in the 2020 census released Thursday. That’s a decline of 5,160 or 5.9% from the 2000 count.
In 2000, the St. Landry Parish’s population was 87,700, but dropped to 83,384 in 2010.
Since 2000, Eunice’s population dropped 18%.
Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot thinks the census is under-counting the population. He did not have the latest count for the...