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Housing in Clarks

A typical Clarks home is worth roughly $50,000

Typical home value
$50K
LA $217K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$860
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$199
LA $1,180

What kind of housing town is Clarks?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

Less than across Louisiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$117,000
Typical Clarks home $50K

That covers a typical Clarks home, with $67K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$280
Loan $250Tax $20Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $860 a month here, $580 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Clarks’s typical property tax (0.39% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $860

Renters already here pay a median of $777, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$860
3 bedrooms$1,110
4 bedrooms$1,300
33%
of households rent · LA 33%
67
renter households
$777
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Caldwell Parish, LA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

68% of Clarks households own their home

Half of Clarks’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters
Own 68%Rent 33%

Louisiana: 67% own.

1972
typical home built · LA 1983
$199
median property tax bill · LA $1,180
0.39%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · LA 0.55%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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