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Sunset is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,897 at the 2010 census, up from 2,352 in 2000. It is part of the Opelousas–Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Sunset is located at (30.408456, 92.066132). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.1 km), of which 3.1 square miles (8.1 km) is land and 0.04 square mile (0.1 km) (0.96%) is water.

+Sunset racial composition Race Number Percentage White (non Hispanic) 1,324 45.51% Black or African American (non Hispanic) 1,426 49.02% Native American 6 0.21% Asian 7 0.24% Other/Mixed 89 3.06% Hispanic or Latino 57 1.96%
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,909 people, 1,063 households, and 796 families residing in the town.

As of the census the median income for a household in the town was $33,000, and the median income for a family was $62,708. Males had a median income of $59,375 versus $23,258 for females. The per capita income for the town was $20,901. About 10.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.9% of those under age 18 and 39.4% of those age 65 or over.

Like many towns in Southern Louisiana, Sunset began as a railroad town (for the out distribution of cotton and sweet potatoes and the in distribution of specialty goods), was incorporated in 1904, and had its first village meeting that December 7. Victor Hugo Sibille was the first mayor. As part of a large scale conversion of arable land away from cotton (due to the mass destruction from the cotton boll weevil) and toward sweet potatoes in the late 19th century, the city gave itself the nickname "Sweet Potato Capital of the Nation" at the turn of the 20th century. According to local lore, The Bank of Sunset was one of the very few that did not close throughout the Great Depression of 1929.