re: What is the worst parish in Louisiana?

Yes!

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Cameron. Nothing there but a two street town, swamp/sea march, houses on huge stilts, and mosquitoes as big as deer flies.

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Your description makes it better than 1/2 the parishes in the state.

Concordia.

You south La is better than N La figs kill me. the jokes on you’ns.

St. Landry, because I get tickets driving on my way to Dallas.

By percentage of people below the poverty level.

East Carroll Parish 48
Madison Parish 40.3
Tensas Parish 34.3
Concordia Parish 31.8
Lincoln Parish 30.4
Franklin Parish 29.9
Claiborne Parish 29.7
Union Parish 27.9
St. Helena Parish 27.4
Orleans Parish 27.3
Bienville Parish 26.9
St. Landry Parish 26.8
Morehouse Parish 26.5
Natchitoches Parish 26
Washington Parish 25.7
West Carroll Parish 25
Evangeline Parish 24.5
Ouachita Parish 23.2
Avoyelles Parish 22.6
De Soto Parish 22.6
Winn Parish 22.6
Webster Parish 21.9
Catahoula Parish 21.8
Red River Parish 21.8
Sabine Parish 21.7
Richland Parish 21.3
Tangipahoa Parish 21.2
St. Mary Parish 21
Iberia Parish 20.7
Jackson Parish 20.6
Caldwell Parish 20.2
Rapides Parish 19.9
Caddo Parish 19.5
East Baton Rouge Parish 19.2
Iberville Parish 19.2
Jefferson Davis Parish 18.8
Acadia Parish 18.7
Assumption Parish 18.7
St. Bernard Parish 18.7
St. Martin Parish 18.2
Pointe Coupee Parish 17.7
Calcasieu Parish 17.4
East Feliciana Parish 17.3
Grant Parish 17.3
Terrebonne Parish 17.1
Vermilion Parish 17.1
Beauregard Parish 16.8
Lafayette Parish 16.7
West Feliciana Parish 16.6
Jefferson Parish 16.5
St. James Parish 16.4
Allen Parish 16.1
St. John the Baptist Parish 16.1
West Baton Rouge Parish 14.6
Bossier Parish 14.3
La Salle Parish 14.2
Lafourche Parish 14.1
Vernon Parish 13.5
Livingston Parish 13.3
Plaquemines Parish 12.7
St. Charles Parish 12.7
Ascension Parish 12.3
St. Tammany Parish 10.6
Cameron Parish 8.7

By violent crime rate by parish is a little harder to find. Someone else can get that for you.

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Do Beauregard, Vernon, and Sabine Parishes get an honorable mention?

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Thanks for posting. Those places are utter shite boxes.

vermilion

Maybe we are looking at this the wrong way...

The parishes should be divided into weight classes depending on population / municipalities.

Kind of hard to compare Orleans and Tensas on an even basis.

St. John

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The stories that come out (see the teacher and LPSO thread) make it sound like the Florida of Louisiana.

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They don't call them the Florida Parishes for nothing.

The answer is Concordia. While all of the parishes along the Mississippi River when it makes the border with Mississippi suck, Concordia has Ferriday, so it is the undisputed leader in suck.