The population of Rapides Parish is estimated at 132,097. In 2017 there were 1,756 births and 1,432 deaths in Rapides Parish . Rapides Parish has 18,979 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,053 that are owned free and clear and 17,369 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rapides Parish filed 55,670 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.8% of all Louisiana filings and 0.037% of the entire nation. Rapides Parish had a combined total federal tax liability of $477,468,000 on earned income of $2,986,173,000. Other notable statistics from Rapides Parish were 1,430 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,435,000 and 8,750 charitable contributions valued at $71,474,000. 7,900 filings from Rapides Parish paid a combined total of $16,590,000 in property taxes and 7,640 filings paid $52,900,000 on mortgage interest costs.

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20.1% of the Rapides Parish population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Rapides Parish voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,170 votes.
At $42,238 the median income is 91.3% of the Louisiana average. An estimated 3,166 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rapides Parish, the equivalant of around 5.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Rapides Parish .
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,112	Health care and social assistance
7,769	Retail trade
5,577	Hospitals
4,330	Accommodation and food services
3,851	Manufacturing
3,669	Food services and drinking places
3,497	Restaurants and other eating places
2,883	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
1,916	Limited-service restaurants
1,552	Offices of physicians
1,541	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
1,525	Finance and insurance
1,333	Full-service restaurants
1,138	Transportation and warehousing
1,096	Nursing and residential care facilities

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