Counties in Louisiana by covered employment (QCEW)

East Baton Rouge Parish had the highest covered employment (QCEW) of 64 counties in 2019, at 265,287 jobs. Tensas Parish had the lowest, at 885 jobs. The median was 10,279 jobs and the figure for Louisiana was 1,923,825 jobs. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Highest265,287East Baton Rouge Parish

Lowest885Tensas Parish

Median10,27964 counties

Louisiana1,923,825History

Map of counties, 2019

Under 4,000
4,000 to 6,000
6,000 to 10K
10K to 14K
14K to 46K
46K and over

jobs, 2019. Source: BLS, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Top 40 counties, 2019

jobs. Source: BLS, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2019 jobs	Change on 2018
1	East Baton Rouge Parish	265,287	-0.9%
2	Orleans Parish	200,897	+2.2%
3	Jefferson Parish	190,029	+0.2%
4	Lafayette Parish	131,571	+0.7%
5	Caddo Parish	111,288	-0.6%
6	Calcasieu Parish	101,706	-0.2%
7	St. Tammany Parish	90,531	+1.6%
8	Ouachita Parish	69,812	-1%
9	Rapides Parish	56,599	-0.2%
10	Terrebonne Parish	50,014	+0.4%
11	Ascension Parish	46,953	+2.7%
12	Bossier Parish	44,469	+0.2%
13	Tangipahoa Parish	43,820	+0.4%
14	Lafourche Parish	34,202	+0.2%
15	Livingston Parish	29,415	+5%
16	Iberia Parish	26,366	+0.1%
17	St. Landry Parish	23,737	+0.5%
18	St. Charles Parish	23,615	+0.1%
19	St. Mary Parish	21,270	-0.4%
20	Lincoln Parish	19,269	+0.2%
21	Iberville Parish	15,369	-10.9%
22	St. John the Baptist Parish	14,460	-4.3%
23	Acadia Parish	14,388	-0.6%
24	Natchitoches Parish	13,297	-0%
25	Vermilion Parish	12,697	+0.4%
26	Vernon Parish	12,692	+0.4%
27	West Baton Rouge Parish	12,321	+1.5%
28	Plaquemines Parish	11,969	-3.1%
29	St. Martin Parish	11,900	-1.8%
30	Webster Parish	11,658	-0.6%
31	Avoyelles Parish	10,440	-1.1%
32	Washington Parish	10,416	-0.2%
33	St. Bernard Parish	10,142	-0.4%
34	Cameron Parish	9,117	-23.4%
35	Beauregard Parish	8,359	+3.2%
36	Jefferson Davis Parish	8,315	-0.1%
37	St. James Parish	8,206	+0.8%
38	Allen Parish	7,778	+2.4%
39	Evangeline Parish	7,559	-1.9%
40	De Soto Parish	6,824	-1.5%
41	Morehouse Parish	6,524	-1.6%
42	Richland Parish	6,495	-0.8%
43	West Feliciana Parish	5,693	+2.8%
44	Sabine Parish	5,473	+2.9%
45	Concordia Parish	5,353	+2.1%
46	Pointe Coupee Parish	5,282	+0.2%
47	East Feliciana Parish	5,156	+3%
48	Union Parish	5,096	-1%
49	Franklin Parish	4,805	+2.2%
50	LaSalle Parish	4,797	+6.9%
51	Winn Parish	4,525	-1.6%
52	Bienville Parish	4,262	-3.3%
53	Assumption Parish	3,911	+0.8%
54	Grant Parish	3,437	+0.5%
55	Claiborne Parish	3,396	+0.7%
55	Jackson Parish	3,396	-0.9%
57	Madison Parish	3,122	-1.3%
58	Red River Parish	2,520	-10.3%
59	Caldwell Parish	2,283	-1.8%
60	West Carroll Parish	2,079	-12.6%
61	Catahoula Parish	2,014	+0.6%
62	East Carroll Parish	1,695	-2%
63	St. Helena Parish	1,596	+9.2%
64	Tensas Parish	885	-3.5%

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

Counts jobs, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice. Covers about 95 percent of US wage and salary jobs. Excludes the self-employed, most agricultural workers on small farms, the armed forces, elected officials in most states, most railroad employees, some domestic workers and most student workers at schools. A count of employer reports, not a survey estimate like oews_employment.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

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/2019/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (Counties in Louisiana by covered employment (QCEW), 2019) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2019/a/industry/10.csv

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Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties, Counties in Louisiana by covered employment (QCEW), 2019. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21 Aug. 2026, https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2019/a/industry/10.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/louisiana-counties?period=2019. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Counties in Louisiana by covered employment (QCEW), 2019. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2019/a/industry/10.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/louisiana-counties?period=2019.

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Which county has the highest covered employment (QCEW)?

East Baton Rouge Parish, with 265,287 jobs in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which county has the lowest covered employment (QCEW)?

Tensas Parish, with 885 jobs in 2019.

Where does this ranking come from?

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