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Houma
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only incorporated city and parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- Terrebonne
- Founded
- 1834 ; 192 years ago ( 1834 )
- Incorporated
- 1848 ; 178 years ago ( 1848 )
- Reincorporated
- 1898 ; 128 years ago ( 1898 )
- Named after
- Houma people
- Parish seat
- Terrebonne
- Principal city
- Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area
- Region
- Acadiana , South Louisiana
- Type
- Government
- Body
- Consolidated City-Parish
- Parish president
- Jason W. Bergeron (since 2024)
- City
- 14.59 sq mi (37.80 km )
- Land
- 14.47 sq mi (37.47 km )
- Water
- 0.13 sq mi (0.33 km )
- Density
- 2,309.1/sq mi (891.55/km )
- Metro
- 208,178
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Houma
- Population
- 33406
- Area
- 0.333460
- Elevation
- 3
- Image
- HoumaLA2009TownHall.jpg
- Households
- 12909
- Dialing code
- 985
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- Commons category
- Houma, Louisiana
- inception
- 1834-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.5222
- postal code
- 70364
- per capita income
- 30306
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Houma (/ˈhoʊmə/ HOH-mə) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The city's government was absorbed by the parish in 1984, which currently operates as the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government.
The population was 33,727 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1,334 over the 2000 census tabulation of 32,393. In 2020, the population estimates program determined 32,467 people lived in the city. At the 2020 census, its population rebounded to 33,406. Many unincorporated areas are adjacent to the city of Houma. The largest, Bayou Cane, is an urbanized area commonly referred to by locals as being part of Houma, but it is not included in the city's census counts, and is a separate census-designated place. If the populations of the urbanized census-designated places were included with that of the city of Houma, the total would exceed 60,000 residents.