1. Build the intake around Bastrop’s actual service area
The U.S. Census Bureau records Bastrop as a Louisiana municipality in Morehouse Parish, with a 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate of 9,232 and a margin of error of 29. That is geographic and population context only. It does not establish website demand, legal need, competition, case volume or staffing requirements. Your intake should therefore begin with the firm’s service definition: Bastrop city, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, or another scope you explicitly choose. A visitor’s location may affect whether the firm can evaluate the matter, but the flow should not assume that population data predicts the visitor’s situation.
Recommended approach
Write location questions and routing rules around the territory your firm actually serves. Decide whether the intake should ask for city, parish, incident location, opposing-party location or another legally relevant detail. Keep the answer path specific enough to support an ownership decision without treating Bastrop’s population as a demand forecast.
