Is St. Helena Parish, LA's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It shrank by 42 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. St. Helena Parish, LA’s 0.39% annual decrease was primarily driven by deaths outpacing births.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, St. Helena Parish, LA’s population grew by 2.8%.
-42
population change (2024 to 2025)
-0.39%
percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, St. Helena Parish, LA's population increased 7 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2019 and 2020, when St. Helena Parish, LA gained 739 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2013 and 2014 when there were 254 fewer residents.
St. Helena Parish, LA lost 42 residents between 2024 and 2025.
Annual population change, 2001–2025
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What contributes to population change in St. Helena Parish, LA?
A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
- Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in St. Helena Parish, LA, with deaths exceeding births by 48.
- Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, St. Helena Parish, LA’s population change from immigration was positive with about zero more people coming from another country directly to St. Helena Parish, LA than leaving.
- Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, St. Helena Parish, LA’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about five more people coming from any other county in the US.
Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population decline in St. Helena Parish, LA.
Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025
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