Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety1#15,544/15,637
Economy5#14,775/15,631
Housing49#7,689/14,977
Health4#14,970/15,609
Healthcare39#9,592/15,650
Environment36#9,869/15,453
Education1#15,421/15,649
Infrastructure4#15,094/15,650
Community13#13,584/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,112/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Delhi, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Richland Parish value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Job growth · high35.1%
100/100Louisiana -0.5%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataRichland Parish value
Effective property tax rate · low0.10%
100/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Pharmacies · high4.6 /10k
100/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsRichland Parish value
Mental health providers · high626 /100k
94/100Louisiana 365 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRichland Parish value
Time spent in the emergency room · low108 min
94/100Louisiana 135 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRichland Parish value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
87/100Louisiana 0.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesRichland Parish value

Weaknesses

Reading scores · low2.20
0/100Louisiana 2.74United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRichland Parish value
Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationRichland Parish value
Adult obesity · high48.8%
1/100Louisiana 42.3%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Math scores · low2.32
1/100Louisiana 2.71United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRichland Parish value
Preventable hospital stays · high5,121 /100k
1/100Louisiana 3,516 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRichland Parish value
Frequent mental distress · high23.7%
1/100Louisiana 21.3%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,846 (2015-2019) → 2,573 (2020-2024)
−9.6%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
35.9% (2015-2019) → 85.0% (2020-2024)
+49 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
51.0% (2015-2019) → 23.6% (2020-2024)
−27 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
65.2% (2015-2019) → 40.0% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
50.3% (2015-2019) → 26.5% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
27.1% (2015-2019) → 8.3% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Delhi, Louisiana improved on 5 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved5

Broadband+49 points35.9% → 85.0%
Uninsured−19 points27.1% → 8.3%
Rent / income−27 points51.0% → 23.6%
Household income+91%$27,289 → $52,132
Child poverty−24 points50.3% → 26.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Delhi, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.8 min2015-2019	20.3 min2020-2024	+4.5 min	Within the margin of error	12%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.3%2015-2019	12.1%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Broadband subscriptions	35.9%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	+49 points	Improved	100%
Child poverty rate	50.3%2015-2019	26.5%2020-2024	−24 points	Improved	96%
High school diploma or higher	80.2%2015-2019	80.6%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	−1.0×	Within the margin of error	98%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4972015-2019	0.4852020-2024	−0.012	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$27,2892015-2019	$52,1322020-2024	+91%	Improved	98%
Poverty rate	37.0%2015-2019	25.1%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	23.6%2020-2024	−27 points	Improved	100%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	27.1%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	−19 points	Improved	100%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Delhi, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Delhi, Louisiana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Delhi, Louisiana itself moved +16.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,573 residents (±18)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 10–19 women (+4.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,573 residents (±18)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

White34%877
Black62%1,597
Hispanic or Latino3.0%†78

Education

1,722 residents (±123)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

No high school diploma19%†334
High school or GED39%674
Some college21%360

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

966 households (±92)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k30%†286
$25k–50k17%†168
$50k–75k24%†233
$75k–100k14%†136
$100k–150k8.7%†84
$150k–200k2.0%†19
$200k or more4.1%†40

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $50k–75k (+14.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

966 households (±92)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own50%482
Rent50%484

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−12.3 points).

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

390 households (±83)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $75024%†93
$750–1,00032%†124
$1,000–1,50040%†155

Home values

482 homes (±95)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $150k54%†260
$150k–250k24%†117
$250k–400k3.5%†17

Age of homes

1,233 homes (±121)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

2010 or later6.7%†83
2000–20098.7%†107
1980–199920%†245

Size of homes

1,233 homes (±121)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Studio1.0%†12
1 bedroom2.4%†30
2 bedrooms15%†191

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,007 workers (±121)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone87%877
Carpool9.5%†96
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.7%†17
Bike0.0%0
Work from home1.0%†10
Other0.7%†7

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

997 workers (±124)

Delhi, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under 15 min57%570
15–29 min16%†158
30–44 min3.1%†31

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Monroe, LA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Richland Parish, the county holding most of Delhi's residents.

Richland Parish has 414 employer establishments, 210 for every 10,000 residents (0.85× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Louisiana's), with 5,355 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,782. The Census Bureau also counts 1,616 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 414; 1,616 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 210; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 5,355
Average annual pay: $45,782; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Richland Parish by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	29	14.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	380	$43,400	82
Religious organizations	24	12.2	2.19×More than typical	88	$19,091	—
Specialty trade contractors	24	12.2	0.79×Fewer than typical	193	$40,119	117
Lessors of real estate	20	10.1	0.82×About typical	145	$29,759	140
Building equipment contractors	16	8.1	1.35×More than typical	114	$40,175	25
Restaurants and other eating places	16	8.1	0.44×Fewer than typical	206	$17,607	9
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	14	7.1	1.74×More than typical	34	$51,382	13
Gasoline stations	14	7.1	2.19×More than typical	150	$24,087	—
Health and personal care stores	11	5.6	2.10×More than typical	84	$30,548	20
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	5.6	1.27×More than typical	30	$43,967	28
Offices of physicians	11	5.6	0.86×About typical	95	$57,526	9
Banks and credit unions	10	5.1	1.57×More than typical	111	$59,279	—

Rank places for an industry Open Richland Parish

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,721 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Delhi, Louisiana: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2.1KFY2017
-2.1KFY2018
785.9FY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Delhi, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Delhi, Louisiana's figures are part of those of Richland Parish, LA ($7.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Delhi is mostly in Richland Parish.

See federal money in Richland Parish

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Delhi, Louisiana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Julia LetlowR-LA-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 5.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Richland Parish4100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Monroe, LA12

Other cities and towns in Richland Parish

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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