Town · Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Gueydan, Louisiana

Gueydan is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, part of the Lafayette, LA metro area. It has 1,464 residents. Gueydan, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 4 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,957 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #158 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), violent crime rate (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), broadband subscriptions (low) and median household income (low).

4Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,957 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #158 of 262 in LA
Population: 1,464 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,608.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 2232055

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

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

Safety70#4,652/15,637
Economy1#15,533/15,631
Housing25#11,206/14,977
Health11#13,967/15,609
Healthcare16#13,206/15,650
Environment19#12,591/15,453
Education17#12,936/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,443/15,650
Community5#14,810/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,406/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Gueydan, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Vermilion 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

Effective property tax rate · low0.22%
99/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Violent crime rate · low53 /100k
97/100Louisiana 515 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion Parish value
Time spent in the emergency room · low104 min
95/100Louisiana 135 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesVermilion Parish value
Property crime rate · low386 /100k
94/100Louisiana 1,966 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion Parish value
Pharmacies · high2.6 /10k
91/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVermilion Parish value
Comfortable days · high32.4%
88/100Louisiana 29.3%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationVermilion Parish value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high22.8%
1/100Louisiana 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Broadband subscriptions · low77.7%
1/100Louisiana 86.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Median household income · low$27,891
1/100Louisiana $61,038United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Child poverty rate · high44.7%
2/100Louisiana 25.0%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poverty rate · high39.5%
2/100Louisiana 18.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.527
3/100Louisiana 0.495United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,249 (2015-2019) → 1,464 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
35.3% (2015-2019) → 74.0% (2020-2024)
+39 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
19.8% (2015-2019) → 50.0% (2020-2024)
+30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
25.1% (2015-2019) → 44.7% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateWorsening
5.8% (2015-2019) → 22.8% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
24.5% (2015-2019) → 39.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Gueydan, Louisiana improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Bachelor's+−5.3 points13.0% → 7.7%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Gueydan, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	34.8 min2015-2019	38.0 min2020-2024	+3.3 min	Within the margin of error	18%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.0%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	−5.3 points	Declined	6%
Broadband subscriptions	73.9%2015-2019	77.7%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Effective property tax rate	0.13%2015-2019	0.22%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
High school diploma or higher	73.5%2015-2019	82.2%2020-2024	+8.8 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	73%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5082015-2019	0.5272020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$33,6112015-2019	$27,8912020-2024	−17%	Within the margin of error	2%
Poverty rate	24.5%2015-2019	39.5%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.8%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	79%

“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 Gueydan, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Gueydan, 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, Gueydan, Louisiana itself moved −3.9 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

1,464 residents (±303)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

565 households (±132)

Gueydan, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k45%†252
$25k–50k23%†128
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

565 households (±132)

Gueydan, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own71%401
Rent29%†164

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

345 workers (±102)

Gueydan, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone86%†296
Carpool8.7%†30
Public transit

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 Lafayette, 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 Vermilion Parish, the county holding most of Gueydan's residents.

Vermilion Parish has 969 employer establishments, 170 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.72× Louisiana's), with 9,362 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,959. The Census Bureau also counts 5,277 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 969; 5,277 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 170; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 9,362
Average annual pay: $47,959; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	71	12.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	452	$52,524	240
Specialty trade contractors	66	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	359	$52,560	445
Restaurants and other eating places	64	11.2	0.61×Fewer than typical	972	$15,503	27
Building equipment contractors	38	6.7	1.11×About typical	155	$48,071	98
Legal services	32	5.6	1.04×About typical	45	$52,044	44
Services to buildings and dwellings	29	5.1	0.75×Fewer than typical	110	$30,600	575
Religious organizations	28	4.9	0.88×About typical	180	$17,083	—
Offices of other health practitioners	27	4.7	0.78×Fewer than typical	91	$38,385	57
Limited-service restaurants	26	4.6	0.57×Fewer than typical	494	$14,749	12
Full-service restaurants	25	4.4	0.57×Fewer than typical	430	$16,298	9
Management, scientific and technical consulting	25	4.4	0.65×Fewer than typical	32	$63,344	118
Gasoline stations	23	4	1.24×About typical	196	$23,862	4

Rank places for an industry Open Vermilion Parish

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 57,141 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Vermilion 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.

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

House

Clay HigginsR-LA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.7%

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.

Vermilion Parish18100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lafayette, LA31

Other cities and towns in Vermilion 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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