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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Jennings
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Jefferson Davis Parish
- Population
- 9837
- Area
- 26.994199
- Elevation
- 26
- Capital of
- Jefferson Davis Parish
- Official website
- www.cityofjennings.com
- Image
- Jennings LA W. H. Tupper General Merchandise Museum2008.jpg
- Households
- 4167
- Dialing code
- 337
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- Commons category
- Jennings, Louisiana
- postal code
- 70546
- inception
- 1888-05-02
- P8168
- Gavignano
- water as percent of area
- 0.1742
- per capita income
- 24464
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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.