Norwood is a village in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Norwood had a population of 279. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Geography
Norwood is located in northwestern East Feliciana Parish. Louisiana Highway 19 passes through the village, leading south to Baton Rouge and north to the Mississippi border. Centreville, Mississippi, and Clinton, the East Feliciana Parish seat, is to the southeast.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Norwood has a total area of , of which , or 0.40%, is water.
Demographics
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Norwood racial composition as of 2020
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 217
| 77.78%
|-
!scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 60
| 21.51%
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 2
| 0.72%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 279 people, 127 households, and 71 families residing in the village.
Notable person
- Lawrence Brooks (1909-2022), the oldest American veteran of World War II, was born in Norwood.