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22015 County FIPS Code

Bossier Parish

Louisiana · County seat: Benton · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 22015 is Bossier Parish, Louisiana. With a population of 128,877 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #12 in Louisiana and #498 nationally. Bossier Parish is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA. The state FIPS code for Louisiana is 22. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

22015

State FIPS

22

LA

Population

128,877

2022 ACS · #498 nationally

Density

153.4/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

840

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — 250K–1M population

RUCC 2

How This FIPS Code Works

22 015
22 = State FIPS (Louisiana)
015 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 22015 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 22 (Louisiana) with the 3-digit county identifier 015. Together they uniquely identify Bossier Parish in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 22015

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 22015.

Median Household Income

$64,598

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

16.7%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

36.0

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (6)

Counties that share a border with Bossier Parish. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 22015.

Federal Datasets Using Code 22015

FIPS code 22015 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 22015 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 22015
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:015",
    "in":   "state:22",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Bossier Parish, Louisiana, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 22015
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '22015';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '22'
  AND county_fips = '015';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 22015 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 22015
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "22",
  county    = "015",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 22 (not 22) and 015 (not 15) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Bossier Parish

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Bossier Parish. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
71006 100.0%
71037 100.0%
71064 100.0%
71110 100.0%
71111 100.0%
71112 100.0%
71051 99.2%
71067 92.3%
71018 32.4%
71075 31.6%
71071 19.6%
71023 19.2%
71104 5.0%
71105 4.8%
71107 0.8%

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