City · Webster Parish, Louisiana

Springhill, Louisiana

Springhill is a city in Webster Parish, Louisiana, part of the Minden, LA metro area. It has 4,599 residents. Springhill, Louisiana has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,566 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Louisiana it ranks #240 of 262 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), time spent in the emergency room (low) and pharmacies (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), frequent mental distress (high) and adult smoking (high).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,566 of 15,651 cities and towns
Louisiana: #240 of 262 in LA
Population: 4,599 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 740.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 2272485

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.

Safety6#14,757/15,637
Economy3#15,215/15,631
Housing26#11,094/14,977
Health1#15,454/15,609
Healthcare35#10,211/15,650
Environment12#13,533/15,453
Education2#15,383/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,129/15,650
Community14#13,478/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,858/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Springhill, Louisiana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Webster 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 · low0.30%
97/100Louisiana 0.55%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Time spent in the emergency room · low109 min
93/100Louisiana 135 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWebster Parish value
Pharmacies · high2.6 /10k
91/100Louisiana 2.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWebster Parish value
Public libraries · high2.0 /10k
91/100Louisiana 0.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWebster Parish value
Social associations · high13.6 /10k
85/100Louisiana 9.4 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster Parish value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Louisiana 0 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWebster Parish value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Louisiana 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWebster Parish value
Frequent mental distress · high25.4%
0/100Louisiana 21.3%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · high29.5%
0/100Louisiana 20.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Physical inactivity · high44.1%
1/100Louisiana 32.3%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult obesity · high48.5%
1/100Louisiana 42.3%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Poor or fair health · high37.8%
1/100Louisiana 26.0%United States 19.9%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
4,943 (2015-2019) → 4,599 (2020-2024)
−7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
76.6% (2015-2019) → 28.3% (2020-2024)
−48 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
37.7% (2015-2019) → 82.6% (2020-2024)
+45 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
45.6% (2015-2019) → 22.4% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$20,690 (2015-2019) → $37,250 (2020-2024)
+80%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
73.2% (2015-2019) → 58.2% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Springhill, Louisiana improved on 5 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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

Child poverty−48 points76.6% → 28.3%
Broadband+45 points37.7% → 82.6%
Poverty−23 points45.6% → 22.4%
Household income+80%$20,690 → $37,250
Inequality−0.0960.521 → 0.425

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Springhill, Louisiana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.9 min2015-2019	20.4 min2020-2024	−3.5 min	Within the margin of error	82%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.3%2015-2019	9.7%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Broadband subscriptions	37.7%2015-2019	82.6%2020-2024	+45 points	Improved	100%
Child poverty rate	76.6%2015-2019	28.3%2020-2024	−48 points	Improved	99%
Effective property tax rate	0.33%2015-2019	0.30%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	76.7%2015-2019	81.9%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	92%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5212015-2019	0.4252020-2024	−0.096	Improved	95%
Median household income	$20,6902015-2019	$37,2502020-2024	+80%	Improved	96%
Poverty rate	45.6%2015-2019	22.4%2020-2024	−23 points	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	42.9%2015-2019	34.8%2020-2024	−8.1 points	Within the margin of error	90%
Rent-burdened households	73.2%2015-2019	58.2%2020-2024	−15 points	Within the margin of error	89%

“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 Springhill, Louisiana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Springhill, 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, Springhill, Louisiana itself moved +14 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

4,599 residents (±19)

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

1,837 households (±219)

Springhill, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Under $25k35%†638
$25k–50k31%†576
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,837 households (±219)

Springhill, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Own54%997
Rent46%840

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,515 workers (±321)

Springhill, Louisiana
Louisiana share

Drive alone72%1,084
Carpool7.2%†109
Public transit0.0%0

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 Minden, 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 Webster Parish, the county holding most of Springhill's residents.

Webster Parish has 772 employer establishments, 218 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 0.92× Louisiana's), with 9,969 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,781. The Census Bureau also counts 2,658 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 772; 2,658 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 218; US 248 · Louisiana 236
Paid employees: 9,969
Average annual pay: $48,781; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	58	16.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	795	$58,250	129
Restaurants and other eating places	56	15.8	0.86×About typical	728	$16,815	23
Religious organizations	48	13.5	2.44×More than typical	265	$18,857	—
Specialty trade contractors	33	9.3	0.60×Fewer than typical	185	$55,703	201
Gasoline stations	30	8.5	2.61×More than typical	293	$24,010	3
Limited-service restaurants	30	8.5	1.05×About typical	477	$15,688	7
Truck transportation	23	6.5	1.28×More than typical	269	$61,483	97
Full-service restaurants	22	6.2	0.81×About typical	233	$18,914	8
Automotive repair and maintenance	21	5.9	1.18×About typical	121	$36,835	75
Management, scientific and technical consulting	19	5.4	0.80×Fewer than typical	48	$50,896	50
Offices of physicians	19	5.4	0.83×About typical	264	$77,277	19
Lessors of real estate	17	4.8	0.39×Fewer than typical	54	$48,056	171

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 35,479 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 Springhill, Louisiana: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
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

103.2FY2018

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Springhill, Louisiana, so they do not add up across cities.

Springhill, Louisiana's figures are part of those of Webster Parish, LA ($8.9M 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: Springhill is mostly in Webster Parish.

See federal money in Webster 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.

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

House

Mike JohnsonR-LA-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 0.0%

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.

Webster Parish3100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Minden, LA1

Other cities and towns in Webster 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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