Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0How is Oil City run?
Oil City’s city government spent $1.3 million on day-to-day services in the year to December 31, 2024, about $1,436 per resident. These are Census Bureau estimates: Oil City didn’t report its figures, so this page shows them without comparisons.
What stands out about how Oil City is run
Read from the city’s budget and official records.
About $1,436 per resident a year, or $3.93 a day
Day-to-day services only (a Census Bureau estimate). The biggest line: housing & development, at 55%.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Oil City didn’t report all of its 2024 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
No comparison or trend for Oil City yet
Every year of Oil City’s figures is a Census Bureau estimate: the city reported none of its dollars for 2022–2024. Estimates are shown above, labeled, but never ranked against places that reported or drawn as a trend.
How Town Hall compares budgets →The typical homeowner pays $199 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 0.28% of the home’s value, vs 0.55% across Louisiana.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Oil City’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Tax bills are one input to Oil City’s Cost of living grade. Cost of living in Oil City →
Who’s in charge in Oil City
Names change after every election, so we link to the source that keeps them current.
One full-time city employee for every 42 residents
On the payroll in March 2022, from the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (a Census estimate). Residents: the Census population in the 2024 finance file (876).
By department full-time, plus part-time, March 2022
The Census reports one month’s payroll (March); yearly figures are that month × 12, an estimate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
Caddo Parish School District
Oil City’s K–12 school district, shared with Belcher, Blanchard, Gilliam, Greenwood, Hosston and more. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $14,782 per pupil, $8,493 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Louisiana districts overall: 47% local, 34% state, 19% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Oil City.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Louisiana HouseState representatives
- 3Louisiana SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Louisiana
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Oil City’s government
Neighbors add phone numbers and hours to the Handbook.
Questions about Oil City’s government
How much does Oil City spend per resident?
About $1,436 per resident on day-to-day services in the year to December 31, 2024, a Census Bureau estimate (Oil City didn’t report its figures). With building projects and interest, the whole budget was about $2.2 million.
What is the property tax rate in Oil City?
Homeowners report a typical bill of $199 a year (Census ACS, 2020–24), about 0.28% of the typical home’s value, vs 0.55% across Louisiana. For the official rate per $1,000 of assessed value, see the city’s assessor.
Who runs Oil City’s government?
We name an official only when a public source lists a current term, and none does for Oil City yet.
How many people work for Oil City?
21 full-time and 2 part-time employees in March 2022, with a March payroll of $45,197 (about $542,364 a year if every month were the same); Census Bureau estimates.
Who represents Oil City in the state legislature?
State Senate District 39 (Sam Jenkins) and State House District 1 (Danny McCormick). The House district also covers 10 other towns. Listed by Open States; districts from the Census Bureau.
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Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments (2022, every government) and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (2023–24, a sample) and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Oil City, the Bureau’s estimates); day-to-day spending is current operations, with hospitals, utilities and airports apart. School district: Census school finance survey, 2023–24. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 2020–24. Elections: official 2024 returns via the MIT Election Data + Science Lab; turnout uses Census citizen voting-age population (CVAP, 2020–24). Officials: Open States, names shown only with a current term (checked October 9, 2026). Districts: Census Bureau (119th Congress, 2024 state districts); legislators: Open States and congress-legislators. How Town Hall works →