Clark County, IN

County Profile

124,354 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Clark County, IN.

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68out of 100
Area Score
Top 19% of 1,453 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 21% of 1,463 counties measured70
Schools791st of 1,377 counties measured45
GrowthTop 19% of 1,453 counties measured67
Housing affordabilityTop 35% of 1,462 counties measured77
ClimateTop 19% of 1,463 counties measured76
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 1,463 counties measured64
AccessTop 24% of 1,463 counties measured91
Economic stabilityTop 30% of 1,463 counties measured73
The quick read

Clark County ranks in the top 21% of counties measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.6% and median household income of $74,214.

In the public schools here, 40% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.8 students for every teacher.

908 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 7% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
124,354
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$74,214
Top 28% nationally
Density
334/sq mi
372.5 sq mi of land
Median age
39.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Clark County
Indiana
Nearest major airport
SDF
21 mi · Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl
Median home value
$222,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6%, lower than in 70% of the 1,467 measured US counties.

Employment grew 0.1% over the past year, to 66,565 employed residents.

28% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 71% of measured US counties.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsfiling years 2022–2023$55,33240th percentileof 1,417filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftfiling years 2022–2023$54,27938th percentileof 1,417filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$2,0052024 ACS 5-Year$74,214Top 28%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,2322024 ACS 5-Year$38,661Top 31%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per-capita personal income2023$56,343Top 50%of 1,3892023
Poverty rate ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year10.2%Top 28%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±0.6 min2024 ACS 5-Year24.1 minTop 38%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year27.7%Top 29%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year76.6%44th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202666,565Top 32%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+2.3%Top 24%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+0.1%Top 38%of 1,467July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202669,06068th percentileof 1,467July 2026
Labor force participation ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year80.7%Top 24%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.2%47th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026−0.3%Top 42%of 1,467July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.6%Top 30%of 1,467July 2026
Worked from home ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year12.7%79th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/074.52.2
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.6% in July 2026. It has been holding roughly steady, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202474k62k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $74,214 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand29,400$46,830
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators20,920$48,440
Registered Nurses18,180$84,850
Retail Salespersons17,540$30,660
General and Operations Managers16,830$89,140
Stockers and Order Fillers16,410$37,610

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

40% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 53% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.8 students for every full-time teacher across 29 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
29
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
40.4%
Bottom 32% in Indiana
Reading proficiency
52.9%
Top 32% in Indiana
The 12 largest of 29 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Jeffersonville High SchoolGreater Clark County Schools2,20219.024%59%
Silver Creek Elementary SchoolSilver Creek School Corporation98020.9——
Silver Creek High SchoolSilver Creek School Corporation97616.0——
Charlestown Senior High SchoolGreater Clark County Schools86016.922%62%
River Valley Middle SchoolGreater Clark County Schools85714.335%50%
Silver Creek Middle SchoolSilver Creek School Corporation74817.8——
Rock Creek Community Academy · charterRock Creek Community Academy67213.756%55%
Parkview Middle SchoolGreater Clark County Schools65613.738%46%
Clarksville Elementary SchoolClarksville Community School Corp64919.159%44%
Charlestown Middle SchoolGreater Clark County Schools64716.638%49%
Henryville Elementary SchoolBorden-Henryville School Corporation61113.3——
Utica Elementary SchoolGreater Clark County Schools60816.973%64%

50.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Indiana’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 93.2, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area is up 40% over five years, and up 3.8% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,716 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.77% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,272, some 13% above the $1,129 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,272 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $50,900 a year, about 69% of the median household income here of $74,214.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,129 a month.

A median home at $222,900 costs 2.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $84,141, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
93.2

Prices here run about 7% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
28.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,272
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,129
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$222,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Clark County’s median household income of $74,214, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area’s figure202393.2Top 43%of 8872023
Home price change (1 year)the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.8%57th percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+40.2%29th percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+87.2%36th percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.12024 ACS 5-Year2.6Bottom 42%of 3,2182024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year74.7%51st percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±552024 ACS 5-Year55,04984th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,047Bottom 40%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,625Bottom 44%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,272Bottom 40%of 1,423FY2026
Median gross rent ±$262024 ACS 5-Year$1,129Bottom 20%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$4,2182024 ACS 5-Year$222,90064th percentileof 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$582024 ACS 5-Year$1,71655th percentileof 3,1722024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$2,5472024 ACS 5-Year$84,141Top 34%of 3,2182024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.03%2024 ACS 5-Year0.77%47th percentileof 3,1262024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year28.1%Bottom 46%of 3,2172024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1802024 ACS 5-Year31446th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.6%14th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.3%28th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±5612024 ACS 5-Year3,80773rd percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

67/ 100
Top 19% of 1,453 published county profiles
Permitting has been falling for the last 2 years of a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 5% since 2020, reaching 127,479 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 908 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 16% are in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Clark County gained about 0.7% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $55,332, close to the $54,279 of households that moved out.

At 7.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US counties.

Units permitted
908
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
7.3
Top 14% nationally
Year over year
+7%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
16.4%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

20202021202220232024127k121k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.7%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
57%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$55,332
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$54,279
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Jefferson County, KY 1,731 people · 25% of arrivals
  2. Floyd County, IN 1,692 people · 24% of arrivals
  3. Harrison County, IN 265 people · 3.8% of arrivals
  4. Scott County, IN 245 people · 3.5% of arrivals
  5. Washington County, IN 187 people · 2.7% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Floyd County, IN 1,745 people · 28% of departures
  2. Jefferson County, KY 1,063 people · 17% of departures
  3. Scott County, IN 304 people · 4.9% of departures
  4. Washington County, IN 263 people · 4.2% of departures
  5. Harrison County, IN 253 people · 4.1% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

2020202120222023202420252k761
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−41%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 27°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 48.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 47, in the Good band, and about 4 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LOUISVILLE BOWMAN FLD, 17.3 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year632024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals48.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals27°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year42024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year472024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals44°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

64 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and strong wind, with inland flooding alone responsible for 46% of it. strong wind is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

TornadoModerate
EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, landslide, cold wave, lightning, ice storm, winter weather, hail, drought, wildfire, hurricane, avalanche, coastal flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). These are FEMA’s own figures for this county rather than a value derived from surrounding geographies. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Clark County has a modeled homicide rate of about 4.6 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.7 per 100,000 residents in Clark County.

Homicide
4.6
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.3
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
16.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
15.1
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe Clark County as a whole. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. City profiles inside this area carry their own figure where their department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl at 21 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year90.9%Top 20%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle21 miTop 27%of 1,463NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle4Top 43%of 1,463NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year6.8%Top 23%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louisville Muhammad Ali IntlSDF21 mi11,887 ft
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG69 mi10,000 ft
Indianapolis IntlIND91 mi11,200 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
Housing, IncomeU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated September 26, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP areas

Only ZIP areas whose income or home value differ from their city’s by at least ten percent get a profile of their own, so this is a selection rather than every ZIP code in the county.