Clark County area

Population and density of Clark County

The Census Bureau estimates that 130,451 people lived in Clark County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #510 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #14 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 121,110, the population has grown by 9,341 (+7.7%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 372.5 square miles of land, that is 350 people per square mile (135 per km²), placing Clark County #453 nationally for density and #14 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 1.8 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Clark County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Clark County. Together they are home to 97,634 people (74.8%); the other 32,817 (25.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Jeffersonville city, with 54,134 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Charlestown city grew fastest since then (+12.8%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Clark County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Clark County is a central county of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 12 county equivalents have 1,402,509 residents on 3,960.8 square miles of land; Clark County accounts for 9.4% of the land and 9.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #74 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #44 by population. It belongs to the Louisville/Jefferson County--Elizabethtown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

16 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Clark County; 12 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

47104471064711147119471264712947130471414714347147471504716247163471654717247177

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Clark County

Clark County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 3 in Kentucky. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Washington County (513.7 mi²) and the smallest is Trimble County (147.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Clark County forms a block of 2,301.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.2%.

How big is Clark County compared with U.S. states?

Clark County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.8 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 96 areas the size of Clark County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.3 miles (31.1 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Clark County?

Clark County has more land than 597 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Clark County at #2,671 nationally by total area, 46 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 1.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2%. The two percentages are within 0.1 percentage points of each other. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Clark County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.