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Funeral homes in Rapides Parish, LA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for funeral homes in Rapides Parish, LA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 34 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,121 of 1,472 scored counties
#14 of 35 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 20
- 7 chain locations (35%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $6.9M
- On funerals · $141 a household
- Spending per listing
- $345K
- 49% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.1
- 95% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 125,877
- −2.9% since 2020
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What this means
For funeral homes, Rapides Parish has a Groundwork market score of 34 (lower middle): #1,121 of 1,472 scored counties and #14 of 35 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 funeral homes in Rapides Parish. Chain locations make up 35% of them, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 4.1 for every 10,000 households, 95% above the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Households in Rapides Parish spend about $6.9M a year on funerals, or $141 per household, in line with the U.S. average. Spread across 20 funeral homes, that is $345K per home, 49% below the U.S. figure of $679K.
Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in Rapides Parish in 2023. That is one for every 6,119 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Population estimates show Rapides Parish declined 2.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Rapides Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes 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 | Rapides Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.1 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $345K | $497K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 6,119 | 7,248 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −4.2% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.9% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $141 | $134 | $143 |
| Median household income | $54,967 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 34 | 22 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 63
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 207 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 funeral homes and funeral services in Rapides 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 Rapides Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 125,877−2.9% since 2020
- Households
- 48,954
- Median age
- 39.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,324 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 96
- Median household income
- $54,967+16.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,854
- Median home value
- $181,100
- Jobs located here
- 54,365
- Daytime population
- 133,944Residents 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. Tammany Parish, LA | 83 | 10 | 1.0 | $1.5M | +5.3% | #44 of 1,472 |
| 2Livingston Parish, LA | 71 | 7 | 1.3 | $924K | +8.5% | #219 of 1,472 |
| 3Bossier Parish, LA | 68 | 5 | 1.0 | $1.3M | +2.5% | #271 of 1,472 |
| 4Jefferson Parish, LA | 65 | 15 | 0.8 | $1.7M | −1.9% | #345 of 1,472 |
| 5East Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 63 | 24 | 1.4 | $894K | +0.1% | #395 of 1,472 |
| 6Lafayette Parish, LA | 60 | 19 | 1.9 | $623K | +6.5% | #482 of 1,472 |
| 7Ascension Parish, LA | 59 | 10 | 2.1 | $539K | +6.4% | #508 of 1,472 |
| 8Terrebonne Parish, LA | 48 | 9 | 2.1 | $590K | −4.8% | #747 of 1,472 |
| 9Ouachita Parish, LA | 47 | 16 | 2.6 | $519K | −1.0% | #780 of 1,472 |
| 10Orleans Parish, LA | 45 | 31 | 2.0 | $638K | −5.5% | #830 of 1,472 |
| 14Rapides Parish, LA | 34 | 20 | 4.1 | $345K | −2.9% | #1,121 of 1,472 |
Other business types in Rapides Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in Rapides Parish, LA?
There are 20 funeral homes on map listings in Rapides Parish as of September 2026. 7 of them (35%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in Rapides Parish, LA spend on funerals?
About $6.9M a year, or $141 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 99, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $345K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 48,954 households in Rapides Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Rapides Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
Rapides Parish has 4.1 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 95% above the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $345K, 49% below the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, Rapides Parish would have about 10, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 6,119 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is Rapides Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Rapides Parish at 125,877 people in 2025, down 2.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 48,954 households. Median household income in Rapides Parish is $54,967, 32% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 16.3%, 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. Rapides Parish scores 34 for funeral homes (lower middle), #1,121 of 1,472 scored counties.
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