Louisiana · United States
Opelousas population
16,591people · latest figure
Opelousas has a population of 16,591, making it the 2636th largest place we list in United States. It is in Louisiana.
Opelousas holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 531 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 22,835, a fall of 27%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Opelousas is in Louisiana, which has 371 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Tahlequah | Oklahoma | 16,598 |
| Hazel Park | Michigan | 16,597 |
| Douglas | Arizona | 16,592 |
| Grafton | Massachusetts | 16,583 |
| Brenham | Texas | 16,579 |
| Beaver Dam | Wisconsin | 16,564 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.