Bienville Parish

administration
Bienville Parish Courthouse
US state :	Louisiana
Administrative headquarters :	Arcadia
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 479 Arcadia, LA 71001-0479
Foundation :	March 14, 1848
Made up from:	Claiborne Parish
Area code :	001 318
Demographics
Residents :	14,353 (2010)
Population density :	6.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2128 km²
Water surface :	29 km²
map

Website : clerk.bienvilleparish.org

The Bienville Parish ( French Paroisse de Bienville ) is a Parish in US -amerikanischen State Louisiana . In 2010 , the Parish had 14,353 residents and a population density of 6.8 people per square kilometer. The Parish Seat is Arcadia .

geography

The Parish is located in mid-northwest Louisiana, about 40 km to the north from Arkansas and about 70 km to the west from Texas . It has an area of 2128 square kilometers, of which 29 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring parishes border the Bienville Parish:

Webster Parish	Claiborne Parish	Lincoln Parish
Bossier Parish		Jackson Parish
Red River Parish	Natchitoches Parish	Winn Parish

history

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

The Bienville Parish was formed on March 14, 1848 from parts of the Claiborne Parish. It was named after Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767), a former governor of the then French Louisiana .

Furthermore, the Parish is known from the shooting of the crook couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow by the police in 1934.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	5539	-
1860	11,000	98.6%
1870	10,636	-3.3%
1880	10,442	-1.8%
1890	14,108	35.1%
1900	17,588	24.7%
1910	21,776	23.8%
1920	20,977	-3.7%
1930	23,789	13.4%
1940	23,933	0.6%
1950	19,105	-20.2%
1960	16,726	-12.5%
1970	16,024	-4.2%
1980	16,387	2.3%
1990	15,979	-2.5%
2000	15,752	-1.4%
2010	14,353	-8.9%
2012 estimate	14,076	-1.9%
1830–1890 1900–1990 2000 2010–2012

According to the 2010 census , Bienville Parish had 14,353 people in 5,571 households. The population density was 6.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.54 people lived in each of the 5571 households.

The racial the population was composed of 56.0 percent white, 42.0 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.7 percent of the population.

23.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 30,594 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,691. 26.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.