Sunset is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,909 people, 1,063 households, and 796 families residing in the town.

Like many towns in Southern Louisiana, Sunset began as a railroad town (for the out-distribution of cotton and sweet potatoes and the in-distribution of specialty goods), was incorporated in 1904, and had its first village meeting that December 7.

As part of a large-scale conversion of arable land away from cotton (due to the mass-destruction from the cotton boll weevil) and toward sweet potatoes in the late 19th century,[7] the city gave itself the nickname "Sweet Potato Capital of the Nation" at the turn of the 20th century.

[8] According to local lore, The Bank of Sunset was one of the very few that did not close throughout the Great Depression of 1929.