Louisiana Reference Resources in Print and Online

Information about Louisiana’s children at the state and parish levels. Parish statistics include population, poverty and income, employment and income, children receiving aid, child health, children in trouble, child abuse and neglect, public education and child support.

Statistical data for Higher Education is located under Planning, Research, and Performance that includes statistics for items like Degree and Certificate Programs, student enrollment, student credit hours, faculty data, and much more. Choose Master Plan for Public Post-Secondary Education in Louisiana and then the Data Dashboard.

Find election results, voter registration statistics, voter outreach and information for students. The site can be used to identify who is on a ballot, running for a particular office, date of elections and where to vote. Maintained by the Secretary of State office.

Scanned, full text census statistics from 1870 to 2000.

Louisiana Crime rates from 1960 to 2019.

Under Library are statistics for student achievement, participation, financial and school and district reports. Choose Data Center or Category. The Louisiana Department of Education Annual Financial and Statistical Report and the District Composite Reports are two popular reports. The Louisiana Department of Education Annual Financial and Statistical Report offers Education statistics for state and parish levels; includes ACT/SAT scores, number of teachers, suspensions, expulsions, and dropouts. School profiles by parish include registration figures, graduates by sex and race, number of teachers by race, sex and experience. Available online at http://www.louisianabelieves.com/resources/library/financial-data (from1979-current) and http://www2.state.lib.la.us/doeafsr/ covers 1857-1979. The District Composite Reports. Baton Rouge: Department of Education, Division of Planning, Analysis, and Information Resources. (225-342-3391). Information on the Public School Districts, such as a district summary, school and class size characteristics, student participation, attendance, achievement and college readiness. Reports begin 1996.

Statistical publications and reports on taxes for sales, income, natural resources, corporations, tobacco, petroleum, inheritance, gifts and more.

Under Statistics, you can access a database of traffic accident statistics for crash reports, TUB crash reports that involve trucks, DWI, special reports and much more.

Annual publication focuses on animal, forestry, fisheries, plant and wildlife commodities of the state. Gives overall state data, then breaks it down by parish for number of producers, total production and value. Print reports from 1981 are available from State Library through Interlibrary Loan.

Statistical data on the cases processed for the Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Courts of Appeal, Louisiana District Courts, including Juvenile Judicial Activity and Family Court Filings.

Labor statistics available for employment, annual and quarterly wages and employment data with information on employment and unemployment and civilian labor force data.

Basic data about Louisiana people, business and geography, including information about population, households, median income, poverty, building permits, federal grants, land area and persons per square mile.