Mansfield, Louisiana
Mansfield is a small city in and the parish seat of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States. Mansfield is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, with a 2020 population of 4,714.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.7 square miles, all land.Demographics
| Race | Number | Percentage |
| White | 727 | 15.42% |
| Black or African American | 3,691 | 78.3% |
| Native American | 15 | 0.32% |
| Asian | 28 | 0.59% |
| Other/Mixed | 122 | 2.59% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 131 | 2.78% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 4,714 people, 1,916 households, and 1,165 families residing in the city.
Notable people
- Sylura Barron, first African-American woman delegate to a national political convention
- Country Jim Bledsoe, blues guitarist and singer
- Vida Blue, baseball player
- Riemer Calhoun, state senator from DeSoto and Caddo parishes from 1944 to 1952
- Joe T. Cawthorn, lawyer affiliated with Long faction
- Charles Wheaton Elam, state representative from 1892 to 1896
- Joseph Barton Elam, Sr., state representative, U.S. representative
- Walter T. Griffith, U.S. Navy submarine commander during World War II
- Jeff Hall, member of the Louisiana House for District 26 since 2015
- Charles Johnson, football player
- Jeter Jones, blues musician
- Albert Lewis NFL football player
- Joshua Logan, director, producer, playwright and screenwriter
- Sidney Maiden, country blues musician, singer and harmonica player
- Sammy Joe Odom, professional football player.
- Arthur T. Prescott, founding president of Louisiana Tech University
- Mack Charles Reynolds, professional football player
- C. O. Simpkins, African-American state representative, and civil rights activist in Shreveport
- Ocie Lee Smith was an American singer