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Clothing and shoe stores in Bienville Parish, LA
How Bienville Parish, LA compares with other counties and the U.S. for clothing and shoe stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 28 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,760 of 2,087 scored counties
#34 of 49 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 5
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $8M
- On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,432 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 25% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.0
- 44% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 12,269
- −5.0% since 2020
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What this means
For clothing and shoe stores, Bienville Parish has a Groundwork market score of 28 (lower middle): #1,760 of 2,087 scored counties and #34 of 49 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Bienville Parish spend about $8M a year on clothing, shoes and related services, or $1,432 per household, 30% below the U.S. average. Spread across 5 clothing and shoe stores, that is $1.6M per store, 25% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only clothing and shoe stores.
There are 5 clothing and shoe stores on map listings in Bienville Parish as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 44% across the U.S. That comes to 9.0 for every 10,000 households, 44% below the U.S. rate of 16.2.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for clothing and shoe stores in Bienville Parish, since they leave out counts under 3. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Bienville Parish declined 5.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Bienville Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the clothing and shoe stores counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Bienville Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.0 | 20.6 | 16.2 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $855K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,057 | 1,273 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −12.9% | −12.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.0% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services | $1,432 | $1,761 | $2,055 |
| Median household income | $35,011 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 28 | 9 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 16Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 50 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as clothing and shoe stores in Bienville Parish, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Bienville Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 12,269−5.0% since 2020
- Households
- 5,556
- Median age
- 45.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 811 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 16
- Median household income
- $35,011+15.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $59,588
- Median home value
- $99,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,432
- Daytime population
- 10,866Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1St. Charles Parish, LA | 70 | 12 | 6.4 | $3.1M | −3.7% | #362 of 2,087 |
| 2Vermilion Parish, LA | 65 | 13 | 6.0 | $2.8M | +1.3% | #513 of 2,087 |
| 3Livingston Parish, LA | 64 | 66 | 12.3 | $1.5M | +8.5% | #552 of 2,087 |
| 4East Feliciana Parish, LA | 58 | 5 | 7.8 | $2.4M | −2.8% | #733 of 2,087 |
| 5Vernon Parish, LA | 56 | 14 | 7.7 | $2.1M | −7.3% | #808 of 2,087 |
| 6St. Martin Parish, LA | 55 | 12 | 6.1 | $2.7M | −1.0% | #842 of 2,087 |
| 7Evangeline Parish, LA | 51 | 6 | 4.8 | $3.2M | −1.0% | #998 of 2,087 |
| 8Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 51 | 60 | 11.5 | $1.5M | +5.8% | #1,014 of 2,087 |
| 9Pointe Coupee Parish, LA | 50 | 7 | 8.4 | $2.1M | −5.6% | #1,033 of 2,087 |
| 10De Soto Parish, LA | 50 | 10 | 9.5 | $1.7M | +2.0% | #1,036 of 2,087 |
| 34Bienville Parish, LA | 28 | 5 | 9.0 | $1.6M | −5.0% | #1,760 of 2,087 |
Other business types in Bienville Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
- Clothing, shoes and laundry27
- Clothing and shoe stores28
- Laundromats
- Dry cleaners
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many clothing and shoe stores are in Bienville Parish, LA?
As of September 2026, map listings count 5 clothing and shoe stores in Bienville Parish. None of them are chain locations. The listings count clothing, shoe and accessory stores and boutiques. No official count is published for clothing and shoe stores in Bienville Parish: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 16 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Bienville Parish, LA spend on clothing, shoes and related services?
About $8M a year, or $1,432 per household. That is 30% below the U.S. average (an index of 70, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 clothing and shoe stores on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per store. That spending covers all clothing, shoes and related services, which clothing and shoe stores share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,556 households in Bienville Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bienville Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for clothing and shoe stores?
Bienville Parish has 9.0 clothing and shoe stores per 10,000 households, 44% below the U.S. rate of 16.2. Spending per store is $1.6M, 25% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of clothing and shoe stores to household spending, Bienville Parish would have about 6, against 5 on map listings.
How fast is Bienville Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Bienville Parish at 12,269 people in 2025, down 5.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,556 households. Median household income in Bienville Parish is $35,011, 57% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 15.7%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Bienville Parish scores 28 for clothing and shoe stores (lower middle), #1,760 of 2,087 scored counties.
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