Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,034, settled in 1902.
The best of Clarks’ subject grades is an A for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for incomes. Only 21 of Louisiana’s 255 towns score lower on the outdoors. Clarks has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Louisiana), ordered by how far Clarks is from typical.
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Census counts: 1,345 in 1950, 1,052 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2004 and 3 maps from 1940 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Clarks, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Clarks.
Commuting out is the norm in Clarks: 2% of working residents work locally. Among residents here, 29% live below the poverty line, above both the Louisiana town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). The income of the median household for Clarks comes to $28,000. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 81, to 82.
| Clarks | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 29% | 20% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $28,000 | $56,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 9.8% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
29% of adults get no exercise outside work in Clarks. Among adults here, 45% sleep under 7 hours, against 42% in Louisiana’s towns and 36% across U.S. towns. No town among the 162 in Louisiana we compare has a lower share of adults who had a checkup this year than Clarks. The town does better than the Louisiana average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 10.
| Clarks | Louisiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 17% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 42% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 82% | 79% |
| What stands out | Clarks | LA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 7.5% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.9% | 7.5% |
| More binge drinkers | 22.5% | 16.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Compared with 60% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Clarks is higher. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2016. 47% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 18%.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
None within 15 miles of Clarks; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Clarks residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Louisiana.
Where Clarks’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Village in Louisiana, United States
Clarks is a rural village in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Clarks had a population of 1,052. Clarks is the largest community by population in Caldwell Parish.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.