The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget,
or simply Greater Shreveport, is a
metropolitan statistical area in
northwestern Louisiana
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that covers three parishes:
Caddo
The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. They speak the Caddo language.
The Caddo Confederacy was a network of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, who ...
,
Bossier, and
DeSoto.
At the
2020 United States census, the metropolitan region had a population of 393,406; its
American Community Survey
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population was 397,590 per census estimates.
With a
2010 census population of 439,000, it declined to become Louisiana's fourth largest metropolis at 394,706 residents at the 2019 census estimates.
Shreveport–Bossier City is the largest economic and cultural center of North Louisiana and the wider
Ark-La-Tex
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region. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan region comprises the highest concentration of colleges and universities in the Ark-La-Tex. It is part of the
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* I-20 (rap ...
Cyber Corridor linking the area to
Ruston,
Grambling, and
Monroe
Monroe or Monroes may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Monroe (surname)
* Monroe (given name)
* James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
* Marilyn Monroe, actress and model
Places United States
* Monroe, Arkansas, an unincorp ...
, Louisiana;
Dallas
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and
Tyler,
Texas
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; and
Atlanta
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,
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
.
Shreveport–Bossier City's metropolitan economy is primarily based on
oil and natural gas,
manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the
secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer ...
,
casinos Casinos may refer to:
* Casinos, Valencia, municipality in Spain
* David Casinos (born 1972), Spanish Paralympian athlete
* The Casinos
The Casinos was a nine-member doo-wop group from Cincinnati, Ohio, led by Gene Hughes and which included ...
,
restaurants
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,
commerce
Commerce is the organized Complex system, system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered large-scale exchange (distribution through Financial transaction, transactiona ...
,
telecommunications
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,
technology
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,
banking
A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...
,
healthcare
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...
and
medical research
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, and
advertising
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. The largest companies operating within the metropolitan statistical area are
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
,
Calumet Specialty Products Partners,
SWEPCO,
AT&T Mobility and
Cricket Wireless,
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...
,
JPMorgan Chase
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,
Comcast
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,
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in the Regions Center in Birmingham, Alabama. The company provides retail and commercial banking, trust, stock brokerage, and mortgage services. Its banking subsi ...
,
Brookshire Grocery Company
Brookshire Grocery Company is a supermarket chain based in Tyler, Texas. There are more than 200 stores in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma under their five banners: Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods, Fresh by Brookshire's, Spring Market, and ...
, and
Walmart
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. The metropolis is one of the most religious in the United States, Shreveport being one of the top 5 most religious cities in the United States in 2016.
Geography
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area has a total area a little over 2,699 square miles. The area is slightly larger than the
U.S. state
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of
Delaware
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, and smaller than
Connecticut
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and the
U.S. territory of
Puerto Rico
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. The
U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines the metropolitan region as covering
Caddo
The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. They speak the Caddo language.
The Caddo Confederacy was a network of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, who ...
,
Bossier, and
DeSoto parishes.
Previously,
Webster Parish was considered part of Greater Shreveport; it is now part of the
Shreveport–Bossier City–Minden combined statistical area. Communities of the metropolis sit at elevations over 100 feet above sea level making them primary locations for coastal retreat due to
rising sea levels.
The Shreveport–Bossier City area is located in the
South Central United States
The West South Central states, colloquially known as the South Central states, is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as covering four states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The West South Central or Sou ...
, bordering
East Texas
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and
South Arkansas
South Arkansas lies within the southernmost portions of Arkansas Gulf Coastal Plain and Delta regions. It encompasses the lower 15 counties of the state.
History
In the 1920s, nationwide attention focused on South Arkansas when the Smackover Fi ...
. As such, it is within the
Piney Woods ecoregion
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. Its vegetation is classified as temperate forest and grassland. Much of the urbanized area was built on forested land, marshes, swamp, or prairie, remnants of which can still be seen throughout the metropolitan region.
Communities
Cities
*
Shreveport
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Lo ...
(Principal city)
*
Bossier City (Principal city)
*
Mansfield
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(Principal city)
Towns
*
Benton
*
Blanchard (suburb)
*
Greenwood (suburb)
*
Haughton (suburb)
*
Keachi
*
Logansport
*
Oil City
*
Plain Dealing
*
Stonewall (suburb)
*
Vivian
*
Mooringsport
Villages
*
Belcher
*
Gilliam
*
Grand Cane
*
Hosston
*
Ida
*
Longstreet
*
Rodessa
*
South Mansfield
*
Stanley
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Arts and entertainment
Film and television
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* ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy
* ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short
* ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...
Unincorporated areas
Census-designated places
*
Eastwood
*
Frierson
*
Gloster
*
Lakeview
*
Red Chute
Other communities
*
Keithville
*
Kingston
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** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
Demographics
At the
2010 United States census,
there were 557,201 people, 189,000 households, and 139,000 families residing within the metropolitan statistical area; in 2020, the
United States census
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determined it had a population of 393,406. The
American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the United States Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the United States census, decennial census ...
's 2020 census estimates postulated a rebound of 397,590.
According to census estimates from 2015 to 2020, approximately 156,594 households were in the metropolitan area with an average of 2.5 people per household; 46% of the household were married, and spread among 184,148 housing units of which 85% were occupied. Of the housing units, 63% were owner-occupied and 71% were single-unit detached homes at a median value of $156,900. Residents in the metropolitan statistical area had a median household income of $46,610 and 20.9% of its population lived at or below the poverty line.
According to the 2020 census, the racial and ethnic makeup of Shreveport–Bossier City was 35.6%
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...
, 57.9%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 0.1%
Native American, 1.88%
Asian, 1.4%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.1% from
other races, 0.1% from two or more races, and 1.4%
Hispanic
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or
Latino of any heritage 3.4%.This demographic makes White citizens the minority group in Shreveport Louisiana. Females make up 54% of the population in Shreveport whereas males only make up 46% of the Shreveport population. This information is all according to the United States Census Bureau.
In 2020 according to
Sperling's BestPlaces
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Work Studies
Sperling is commissi ...
, roughly 63.5% of Shreveport–Bossier City was religious. According to the
Association of Religion Data Archives
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in 2020, it remained one of the most Christian areas of the United States.
Per Sperling's, the largest religion in the metropolitan statistical area is
Christianity
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, followed by
Islam
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,
Judaism
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, and
eastern religions The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western and African religions. Eastern religions include:
* East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Tengrism ...
including
Buddhism
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,
Sikhism
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, and
Hinduism
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. There is also a growing
spiritual but not religious
"Spiritual but not religious" (SBNR), also known as "spiritual but not affiliated" (SBNA), or less commonly "more spiritual than religious", is a popular phrase and initialism used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that does not reg ...
community.
Among Christians,
Baptists
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,
Methodists, and
Catholics
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form the largest communities in the metropolitan area. A 2014 study determined the leading Baptist denomination was the
Southern Baptist Convention
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. The
United Methodist Church
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was the largest Methodist body and the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport was the primary Catholic jurisdiction. The same study also named Islam the second-largest religion in the area, with Shreveporter Muslims making up about 14% of Louisiana's total Muslim-affiliated population. In a separate study by the Association of Religion Data Archives for 2020, the Southern Baptists had 111,745 members spread throughout 151 churches in the area; and the United Methodists had 19,114 members in 46 churches.
Historically African American Christian denominations including the
National Baptist Convention,
National Baptist Convention of America, and
National Missionary Baptist Convention had 32,132 members altogether.
Economy
Shreveport–Bossier City is the economic and cultural center of Northwest Louisiana and the wider
Ark-La-Tex
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tri-state region. It is also the largest economic metropolitan area in North Louisiana.
The area's economic activity is centered in the city of
Shreveport
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Lo ...
, the parish seat of
Caddo Parish.
Much of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area's economy is based on
oil and natural gas,
manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the
secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer ...
,
casinos Casinos may refer to:
* Casinos, Valencia, municipality in Spain
* David Casinos (born 1972), Spanish Paralympian athlete
* The Casinos
The Casinos was a nine-member doo-wop group from Cincinnati, Ohio, led by Gene Hughes and which included ...
,
restaurants
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, and
commerce
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. The city of Shreveport was once a major player in the national oil industry.
Standard Oil of Louisiana and
United Gas Corporation were headquartered in the city until the 1960s and 1980s. Since the downturn in the oil industry,
telecommunications
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,
technology
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,
banking
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,
healthcare
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and
medical research
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, and
advertising
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have been rising industries since the early 2000s.
Filming
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Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or light-s ...
has also been a prevalent industry in the metropolitan area.
The largest companies operating within the metropolitan area are
Amazon
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* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
,
Calumet Specialty Products Partners,
SWEPCO,
AT&T Mobility and
Cricket Wireless,
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...
,
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational financial services, finance corporation headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is List of largest banks in the United States, the largest ba ...
,
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in the Regions Center in Birmingham, Alabama. The company provides retail and commercial banking, trust, stock brokerage, and mortgage services. Its banking subsi ...
,
Comcast
Comcast Corporation, formerly known as Comcast Holdings,Before the AT&T Broadband, AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, not th ...
, and
Walmart
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. AT&T, Chase, and Regions have regional offices within Shreveport's downtown area. The
Tyler, Texas
Tyler, officially the City of Tyler, is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the population is 105,995. Tyler was the List of municipalities in Texas, 38th most populous city in Texas (as well as the m ...
-based
Brookshire Grocery Company
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operates numerous Super 1 Foods and Brookshire's supermarkets in the area.
From 2013-2014, Greater Shreveport had a
gross metropolitan product
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of nearly $23.6 billion and negative growth rate of 5.4 percent. Its gross metropolitan product had been declining since 2011 to a low of $19 billion in 2016.
In 2018, its gross metropolitan product rebounded to $23.7 billion.
Following statewide economic recovery trends, the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area was expected to gain at least 5,000 jobs by the third quarter of 2021. As of 2021, its gross metropolitan product grew to $24.1 billion.
Media
The principal cities of Shreveport and Bossier City have their own newspapers, ''
The Shreveport Times'' and ''
Bossier Press-Tribune'', respectively. Other major publications in the metropolitan area include ''The Barksdale Warrior,
The Shreveport Sun, Caddo Citizen, SB Magazine, The Forum Newsweekly, City Lights, The Inquisitor'' and ''The Shreveport Catalyst''.
The central city of Shreveport is home to several radio stations, particularly
KWKH and
KEEL
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. The three commercial television outlets for the metropolis are
KSLA (
CBS
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), founded in 1954;
KTBS-TV
KTBS-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. The station is owned by the locally based KTBS, LLC (owned by the Wray Properties Trust, which is managed b ...
(
ABC), founded in 1955; and
KTAL-TV,
which arrived in Shreveport in September 1961 as the
NBC
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station. KTBS was an NBC station, with occasional ABC programs, from 1955–1961, when it switched affiliation to ABC. KTAL, formerly known as KCMC of
Texarkana
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, was a CBS outlet prior to conversion to NBC, when it began to cover Shreveport as well as
Texarkana
The Texarkana metropolitan statistical area (MSA), as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is a two-county region anchored by the Twin cities (geographical proximity), twin cities of Texarkana, Texas (population 37,33 ...
.
Television
Radio
AM stations
FM stations
Education
The Shreveport–Bossier City area is home to several colleges: among them, the
Methodist
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christianity, Christian Christian tradition, tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother ...
-affiliated
Centenary College of Louisiana (originally founded in the
East Feliciana Parish town of
Jackson in 1825, eventually relocating to Shreveport in 1908),
Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary (founded in 1973),
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (opened in 1969 as the only
medical school
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in northern Louisiana) and one of the largest nursing schools in northern Louisiana, the
Northwestern State University College of Nursing (opened in 1949) as well as satellite campuses of
Louisiana State University
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(opened as a two-year institution in 1967, and expanded into a four-year college in 1976), and
Southern University
Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a Public university, public historically black colleges and universities, historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It i ...
(opened in 1967 with a two-year
associate's degree
An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of academic qualification above a high school diploma and below a bachelor's degree. ...
program).
Transportation
The
Shreveport Regional Airport is the major airport for the metropolitan region.
Interstate 20 and
Interstate 49
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are also major highways connecting the metro area to others including the
DFW metroplex in Texas and
Tyler, Texas
Tyler, officially the City of Tyler, is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the population is 105,995. Tyler was the List of municipalities in Texas, 38th most populous city in Texas (as well as the m ...
.
See also
*
Louisiana census statistical areas
*
List of census-designated places in Louisiana
*
List of cities, towns, and villages in Louisiana
*
List of metropolitan areas of Louisiana
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shreveport - Bossier City metropolitan area
Geography of Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Geography of Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Geography of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana