The population of Ouachita Parish is estimated at 156,937. In 2017 there were 2,197 births and 1,636 deaths in Ouachita Parish . Ouachita Parish has 22,328 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,596 that are owned free and clear and 22,767 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Ouachita Parish filed 65,130 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.3% of all Louisiana filings and 0.044% of the entire nation. Ouachita Parish had a combined total federal tax liability of $568,096,000 on earned income of $3,464,551,000. Other notable statistics from Ouachita Parish were 1,770 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,783,000 and 11,270 charitable contributions valued at $93,884,000. 10,230 filings from Ouachita Parish paid a combined total of $19,839,000 in property taxes and 9,610 filings paid $68,620,000 on mortgage interest costs.

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24.3% of the Ouachita Parish population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Ouachita Parish voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 450 votes.
At $41,301 the median income is 89.2% of the Louisiana average. An estimated 3,731 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ouachita Parish, the equivalant of around 5.3% 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 Ouachita Parish .
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,085	Health care and social assistance
9,203	Retail trade
5,725	Food services and drinking places
5,465	Restaurants and other eating places
5,286	Ambulatory health care services
4,748	Hospitals
4,380	Finance and insurance
4,143	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,403	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,257	Administrative and support services
2,789	Limited-service restaurants
2,696	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,461	Information
2,405	Full-service restaurants
2,028	Depository credit intermediation

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