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Parish in Louisiana, United States

Vermilion Parish is a parish located in the U. S. state of Louisiana, created in 1844. The parish seat is Abbeville. Vermilion Parish is part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area, and located in southern Acadiana. At the 2020 U. S. census, the population was 57,359. In the past several decades, much of the southern portion of the parish has been swept away by water erosion, especially after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Indigenous peoples lived in the area for thousands of years, from different cultures. By historic times, the Chitimacha and Atakapa inhabited the area and were the American Indians encountered by Spanish and French explorers and settlers. The tribes' numbers were drastically reduced as a result of exposure to European diseases. French, Spanish, enslaved Africans, and French Canadians from Acadia expelled after the Seven Years' War won by Great Britain, had all entered the area by the end of the 18th century. As the population became mostly Cajun, the primary language was French for years. In the mid to late 19th century, they were joined by European Americans; immigrants from Italy, recruited to work on the plantations, as well as Jewish immigrants from Germany and eastern Europe, who tended to settle in towns and become merchants.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 1542 square miles (3,994 km2), of which 1173 square miles (3,038 km2) is land and 369 square miles (956 km2) (24%) is water. It is the fifth largest parish in Louisiana by total area. The Gulf of Mexico is located to the south of the parish.

+Vermilion Parish racial composition as of 2020 Race Number Percentage White (non Hispanic) 44,020 76.74% Black or African American (non Hispanic) 7,859 13.7% Native American 171 0.3% Asian 1,253 2.18% Pacific Islander 9 0.02% Other/Mixed 1,751 3.05% Hispanic or Latino 2,296 4.0%
Home to a number of Cajun peoples, at the 2000 U. S. census, there were 53,807 people, 19,832 households, and 14,457 families residing in the parish. The population density was At the 2019 American Community Survey, there were 59,865 people living in the parish, up from 57,999 at the 2010 U. S. census. By the 2020 United States census, there were 57,359 people, 22,086 households, and 15,143 families residing in the parish. In 2000, were 22,461 housing units at an average density of The racial makeup of the parish was 82.68% White, 14.17% Black or African American, 0.30% Native American, 1.82% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races; 1.38% of the population were Hispanic or Latin American of any race; 24.89% reported speaking French or Cajun French at home, while 1.64% speak Vietnamese and 1.02% Spanish. In 2019, the racial and ethnic makeup was 81.4% non Hispanic white, 14.5% Black and African American, 0.5% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.4% some other race, and 1.1% from two or more races. An estimated 3.5% of the population were Hispanic and Latin American of any race. Gulf Area Campus (Abbeville)