West Feliciana Parish

administration
US state :	Louisiana
Administrative headquarters :	St. Francisville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Parish Courthouse P.O. Box 1921 Saint Francisville, LA 70775-1921
Foundation :	1824
Made up from:	Feliciana Parish
Area code :	001 225
Demographics
Residents :	15,625 (2010)
Population density :	15.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1052 km²
Water surface :	52 km²
map

Website : www.wfparish.org

The West Feliciana Parish ( French : Paroisse de Feliciana Ouest ) is a parish in the state of Louisiana in the United States . In 2010, the parish had 15,625 residents and a population density of 15.6 people per square kilometer. By 2013, the population had decreased to 15,406. The Parish Seat is St. Francisville .

The West Feliciana Parish is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Baton Rouge .

Rosedown Plantation , listed in the NRHP with the number 01000765

geography

The Parish is east of the geographic center of Louisiana, borders Mississippi to the north and has an area of 1103 square kilometers, of which 52 square kilometers are water. It borders the following parishes and counties:

Concordia Parish , Avoyelles Parish	Wilkinson County, Mississippi
Pointe Coupee Parish		East Feliciana Parish
	East Baton Rouge Parish , West Baton Rouge Parish

history

The parish was named after Maria Feliciana Saint-Maxent, the wife of Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid . West Feliciana Parish was formed in 1824 from parts of the Feliciana Parish.

One building in the Parish has the status of a National Historic Landmark , the Rosedown Plantation , due to its historical significance . A total of 32 buildings and sites in the Parish are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of November 10, 2017).

population

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	8629	-
1840	10,910	26.4%
1850	13,245	21.4%
1860	11,671	-11.9%
1870	10,499	-10%
1880	12,809	22%
1890	15,062	17.6%
1900	15,994	6.2%
1910	13,449	-15.9%
1920	12.303	-8.5%
1930	10,924	-11.2%
1940	11,720	7.3%
1950	10.169	-13.2%
1960	12,395	21.9%
1970	11,376	-8.2%
1980	12,186	7.1%
1990	12,915	6%
2000	15.111	17%
2010	15,625	3.4%
2014 estimate	15,406	-1.4%
1830-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010-2013

According to the 2010 census , West Feliciana Parish had 15,625 people in 4007 households. The population density was 15.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, there were 2.84 people in each of the 4007 households.

The racial the population was composed of 52.9 percent white, 45.9 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.4 percent of the population.

16.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 71.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.1 percent were 65 years or older. 34.3 percent of the population were female. The imbalance in the gender distribution results from the Angola detention center , whose inmates are added to the other residents of the parish in the census.

The median income for a household was 61,616 USD . The per capita income was $ 21,720. 16.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities

Incorporated Towns :

place	Pop. 2010	Pop. 2013
St. Francisville	1765	1746

Unincorporated communities not recorded separately from the census :

Entrance to the detention center

Detention center

On a peninsula of the Mississippi in the northwest of the Parish lies the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola or The Farm . The detention center is the largest maximum security prison in the United States.