Baton Rouge Area Chamber

Livingston Parish

Livingston Parish is located on Interstate 12, just ten minutes from Baton Rouge and 45 minutes from New Orleans.  It includes the towns of Albany, Maurepas, Watson, Walker, and Denham Springs, which is known for its antiques shops. Also within the parish are French Settlement, which holds an annual Creole Festival, Hungarian Settlement, a rural ethnic settlement which strives to preserve the Hungarian culture of the town’s residents, Livingston, home to one of only two Laser Interferometer Gravitation Wave Observatories (LIGO) in the country, and Springfield, which features the 1,200 acre Tickfaw State Park, and the new golf and residential community of Carter Plantation. Livingston Parish public schools rank among the top five school districts in the state.

Parish Statistics
Land Area in Square Miles 703
Population (2005 Estimate) 107,626
Population Growth % (2000 – 2005) 15%
Median Age 33.6
Business Establishments 2,486
Employees (Daytime Population) 17,145
Average Annual Pay $19,465

 

Top Employers
Name Employees NAICS Code
SHAW SUNLAND FABRICATORS 250-499 332996
WAL-MART 250-499 452910
FERRARA FIRE APPARATUS INC. 250-499 33612
WASTE MANAGEMENT INC. 250-499 56221
HOME DEPOT 100-249 444

 

Contacts

ED Contact:
John Ware
Executive Director
Livingston Economic Development Council
1810 S. Range Ave.
Denham Springs, LA  70726
225-665-5223
225-235-5229 (mobile)
johnw@demco.org

Web
www.ledcinc.org

Regional ED Contact:
Dave Wood
Executive Director
Baton Rouge Area Chamber
564 Laurel Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70801
225-381-7125
dwood@brac.org

Major Cities/Towns

Albany
Land Area in Square Miles 1.1
Population (2005 Estimate) 1,012
Population Growth % (2000 – 2005) 25.5%
Median Age 33.1
Business Establishments 46
Employees (Daytime Population) 568
Average Annual Pay $17,166

 

Denham Springs
Land Area in Square Miles 6.1
Population (2005 Estimate) 9,946
Population Growth % (2000 – 2005) 12%
Median Age 35.9
Business Establishments 686
Employees (Daytime Population) 4,785
Average Annual Pay $23,221

 

French Settlement
Land Area in Square Miles 2.7
Population (2005 Estimate) 1,085
Population Growth % (2000 2005) 13%
Median Age 37.2
Business Establishments 26
Employees (Daytime Population) 116
Average Annual Pay $19,195

 

Killian
Land Area in Square Miles 11.1
Population (2005 Estimate) 1,231
Population Growth % (2000 2005) 14%
Median Age 41
Business Establishments 24
Employees (Daytime Population) 85
Average Annual Pay $20,099

 

Walker
Land Area in Square Miles 5.8
Population (2005 Estimate) 5,756
Population Growth % (2000 2005) 16.5%
Median Age 32
Business Establishments 180
Employees (Daytime Population) 1,287
Average Annual Pay $18,075

 

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