Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- Jefferson Davis
- Founded
- May 2, 1888
- Total
- 10.58 sq mi (27.40 km )
- Land
- 10.56 sq mi (27.35 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km )
- Elevation
- 26 ft (7.9 m)
- Density
- 931.5/sq mi (359.67/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-38355
- Website
- City of Jennings, Louisiana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jennings is a city in and the parish seat of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States, near Lake Charles. As of the 2020 census, Jennings had a population of 9,837.
Jennings is the principal city of the Jennings Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Jefferson Davis Parish. It is also part of the larger Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area. It is also part of the large, 22-parish Acadiana region of the state, with a large Francophone population, many descended from early Acadian settlers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jennings” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.