Oakdale, Louisiana City of Oakdale Oakdale is positioned in Louisiana Oakdale - Oakdale Location of Louisiana in the United States Oakdale is a small town/city in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.3 square miles (13.6 km2), of which 5.2 square miles (13.4 km2) is territory and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km2), or 1.18%, is water. Oakdale's closest neighbor in Allen Parish is Elizabeth, positioned just west of Oakdale.
As of the census of 2000, there were 8,137 citizens , 2,246 homeholds, and 1,525 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 38.6% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $22,826, and the median income for a family was $28,506.
About 21.7% of families and 23.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 25.1% of those under age 18 and 22.9% of those age 65 or over.
Four former Louisiana politicians, former Lieutenant Governors Coleman Lindsey and Bill Dodd, former State Treasurer Mary Evelyn Parker, and former State Representative E.
(1927-2015), the founder of Rush Funeral Homes, Rush Furniture, Great Central Life Insurance, Great Central Fire Insurance, and Rush Finance Co., and philanthropist was from Oakdale.
John Pershing Navarre (1928-2016), a native of Duson, was the Oakdale town/city judge from 1967 to 1990 and judge of the 33rd Judicial Court from 1990 to 1994. Oakdale High School Oakdale Middle School Oakdale Elementary School Oakdale is home to the Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex, a minimum security prison for male inmates, which include former World - Com CEO Bernard Ebbers who is serving a 25-year sentence for his involvement in the accounting scandal that toppled that company. The prison also held former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards, who served over eight years of a ten-year sentence for his involvement in a 2000 riverboat gambling racketeering case.
Other notable inmates who once served time at the prison include former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama, who was serving a seven-year sentence but has been released pending appeal, and Andrew Fastow, the former Chief Financial Officer for Enron Corporation, who is serving six years.
"Jim" Brown also served time in the facility. Former New Orleans town/city councilman Oliver Thomas, presently serving a 37-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to accepting bribes, served the duration of his sentence at the Oakdale complex. Martin Lumber Company, doing company as Martco, unveiled a $200 million oriented-strand-board plant near Oakdale.
Martin, Jr., had died a month before the Oakdale plant opened. Oakdale Louisiana is also home to one of Boise Cascade LLC.'s plywood plant.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Oakdale city, Louisiana".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
For Webber, Oakdale is no Place Like Home from Network World, September 27, 2006 Former New Orleans town/city councilman Oliver Thomas transferred to prison in Louisiana from The Times-Picayune, 25 June 2009 "Growing in Cenla: Martco 's $200 - M OSB plant near Oakdale is world's largest".
Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex Municipalities and communities of Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Cities in Louisiana - Cities in Allen Parish, Louisiana - Cities in the Central Louisiana
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