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Opelousas, LA Micro Area

The Opelousas, LA micro area is one parish in Louisiana: St. Landry Parish. About 80,765 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 2.2% fewer than in April 2020.

St. Landry Parish, centralOpelousas
St. Landry Parish in Louisiana
Population, July 2025
80,765 2.2% fewer than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
Parish
St. Landry Parish
Land area
923 sq mi (2,392 km²)
Time zone
Central TimeUTC-06:00 in January; UTC-05:00 in July
State
Louisiana
Combined statistical area
Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA
CBSA code
36660
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The parish in the Opelousas, LA micro area

ParishRolePopulation, July 2025
St. Landry ParishCentral80,765

A central parish holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying parishes: no neighboring parish sends enough commuters to join it. A parish belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Opelousas15,495 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 2 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Lafayette, LA Metro Area423,758 people
  2. New Iberia, LA Micro Area66,846 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a parish on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Lafayette, LA Metro Area22 mi south
  2. Baton Rouge, LA Metro Area57 mi east

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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