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Lutcher was established as a sawmill town, named after Henry J. Lutcher who was a sawmill operator and businessman. Lutcher is also where James Mather and his family established a sugar plantation, and where Mather died in 1821. The Bank of Lutcher was organized by George H. Jones, M. D., son of Dr. John Welch Jones.

Starting in the late 1800s, Christmas bonfires are built along the Mississippi River levee near Lutcher. This tradition has often occurred on Christmas Eve and it says that the bonfires are made to light a path for Papa Noel.

On August 29, 2005, Lutcher sustained damage from Hurricane Katrina. On the same day sixteen years later, the town sustained significant damage from Hurricane Ida.

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As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,133 people, 1,321 households, and 942 families residing in the town. At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of Lutcher was 51.9% non-Hispanic white, 46.4% Black and African American, and 1.7% Hispanic and Latin American of any race. The median household income from 2015 to 2019 was $44,347, and males had a median annual income of $52,589 versus $41,722 for females.[14] An estimated 11.2% of the population lived at or below the poverty line.

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