# Counties in Louisiana by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 64 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/louisiana-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | East Baton Rouge Parish | 270,640 |
| 2 | Orleans Parish | 187,364 |
| 3 | Jefferson Parish | 186,101 |
| 4 | Lafayette Parish | 139,145 |
| 5 | Caddo Parish | 110,419 |
| 6 | St. Tammany Parish | 97,985 |
| 7 | Calcasieu Parish | 89,310 |
| 8 | Ouachita Parish | 69,886 |
| 9 | Rapides Parish | 56,850 |
| 10 | Ascension Parish | 50,437 |
| 11 | Terrebonne Parish | 47,828 |
| 12 | Tangipahoa Parish | 47,216 |
| 13 | Bossier Parish | 45,299 |
| 14 | Lafourche Parish | 35,052 |
| 15 | Livingston Parish | 31,287 |
| 16 | Iberia Parish | 24,488 |
| 17 | St. Landry Parish | 23,882 |
| 18 | St. Charles Parish | 23,194 |
| 19 | St. Mary Parish | 19,370 |
| 20 | Lincoln Parish | 19,084 |
| 21 | Iberville Parish | 16,383 |
| 22 | Acadia Parish | 14,889 |
| 23 | Natchitoches Parish | 14,060 |
| 24 | St. John the Baptist Parish | 13,415 |
| 25 | Plaquemines Parish | 13,408 |
| 26 | West Baton Rouge Parish | 13,324 |
| 27 | Vermilion Parish | 12,968 |
| 28 | Vernon Parish | 12,525 |
| 29 | St. Martin Parish | 12,315 |
| 30 | Webster Parish | 11,314 |
| 31 | St. Bernard Parish | 11,268 |
| 32 | Washington Parish | 10,962 |
| 33 | Avoyelles Parish | 9,785 |
| 34 | Beauregard Parish | 8,985 |
| 35 | De Soto Parish | 8,406 |
| 36 | Evangeline Parish | 8,023 |
| 37 | Jefferson Davis Parish | 7,936 |
| 38 | St. James Parish | 7,791 |
| 39 | Allen Parish | 7,351 |
| 40 | Richland Parish | 6,378 |
| 41 | Morehouse Parish | 6,261 |
| 42 | Union Parish | 5,513 |
| 43 | Sabine Parish | 5,453 |
| 44 | East Feliciana Parish | 5,235 |
| 45 | Pointe Coupee Parish | 5,229 |
| 46 | West Feliciana Parish | 5,158 |
| 47 | Concordia Parish | 5,129 |
| 48 | LaSalle Parish | 4,744 |
| 49 | Franklin Parish | 4,657 |
| 50 | Cameron Parish | 4,601 |
| 51 | Winn Parish | 4,454 |
| 52 | Assumption Parish | 4,011 |
| 53 | Bienville Parish | 4,006 |
| 54 | Jackson Parish | 3,943 |
| 55 | Grant Parish | 3,411 |
| 56 | Madison Parish | 3,016 |
| 57 | Claiborne Parish | 2,873 |
| 58 | Red River Parish | 2,519 |
| 59 | Catahoula Parish | 2,288 |
| 60 | Caldwell Parish | 2,233 |
| 61 | West Carroll Parish | 2,011 |
| 62 | St. Helena Parish | 1,615 |
| 63 | East Carroll Parish | 1,410 |
| 64 | Tensas Parish | 792 |