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PARISH PLANNING BASELINE |
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Lafourche Parish
Lafourche Parish is located in the southeastern portion of Louisiana, encompassing an area of 1,472 square miles - of which 1,085 are ‘dry’ land. The Parish has 3 incorporated communities: Thibodaux (parish seat), Golden Meadow and Lockport. The Parish is named for its major waterway, Bayou Lafourche, French for “the fork," referring to this prehistoric route the Mississippi River took to the Gulf of Mexico.
The economy in the lower portion of the parish is strongly tied to the Port of Fourchon as well as the production and distribution of natural gas and oil. Additional economic interests throughout the Parish include commercial fishing and sugar cane production. What the tourists come to see - and locals cherish - is a way of life deeply tied to French Louisiana the Gulf.
Home to Cajuns, Native Americans, and ‘transplants’ who support the oil and gas industry, Lafourche Parish residents treasure their natural environment of bayous, swamps and coastal marsh, and celebrate their family and neighbors. |
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- Lafourche Parish contributes almost 40 percent to the international seafood industry; and approximately 30 percent of our nation’s oil and gas, hence its motto; “Feeding and Fueling America.”
- Highway 1/Bayou Lafourche is nicknamed “The Longest Main Street” because of its more than 65 continuous miles of homes spaced closely together along the bayou.
- Lafourche Parish has 1,084 sq. miles in land area and a population density of 85.0 per square mile. In the last three decades of the 1900s, its population grew by 30.5 percent.
- The average household size is 2.75 persons compared to an average family size of 3.17 persons.
- In 2004 transportation and warehousing was the largest of 20 major sectors. It had an average wage per job of $51,252. Per capita income grew by 42.1 percent between 1993 and 2003 (adjusted for inflation).
- The parish seat is Thibodaux.
- Larger communities are Port Fourchon, Cut Off, Galliano, Golden Meadow, Larose, Lockport, Raceland and Thibodaux.
- According to the 2000 Census, the population was over 92,000.
- Significant economic interests are medical, light manufacturing, support and services for the offshore oil and gas exploration industry, retail and warehousing, Nicholls State University, commercial fishing, agricultural, and tourism.
- Major crop is sugarcane.
- Other industries include oil and timber production, sugar refining, boat building, cattle, and seafood canning.
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