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Urgent care and walk-in clinics in the Ruston, LA area

How the Ruston, LA area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.

Listings
1
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$17M
On medical and dental services · $920 a household
Spending per listing
$17M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
0.5
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
48,360
+0.1% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

As of September 2026, map listings count 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic in the Ruston area. That is 0.5 per 10,000 households.

Households in the Ruston area spend about $17M a year on medical and dental services, or $920 per household, 29% below the U.S. average. That works out to $17M per clinic. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which urgent care and walk-in clinics share with other businesses in the trade.

There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Ruston area: counts under 3 aren’t published.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Ruston area grew 0.1%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, the Ruston area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How the Ruston area compares

The same measures for Louisiana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the urgent care and walk-in clinics counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Urgent care and walk-in clinics in Ruston, LA area compared with Louisiana and the U.S.
MeasureRuston areaLouisianaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.50.60.5
Spending per listing$17M$18M$24.5M
Households per official establishmentn/a7,36612,867
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+87.0%+32.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+0.1%−0.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on medical and dental services$920$1,036$1,288
Median household income$39,172$60,756$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored7

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
n/a
Employees, 2023
n/a
Annual payroll, 2023
n/a
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
10 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
1The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
0
Amount
$0

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Ruston area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in the Ruston area

Population, 2025 estimate
48,360+0.1% since 2020
Households
18,487
Median age
32.7
Homes lived in by their owners
54%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
472 sq. mi.
People per square mile
102
Median household income
$39,172+10.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$66,113
Median home value
$210,100
Jobs located here
18,570
Daytime population
48,307Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Other business types in the Ruston area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many urgent care and walk-in clinics are in the Ruston, LA area?

The Ruston area has 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count urgent care and walk-in clinics. No official count is published for freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Ruston area: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in the Ruston, LA area spend on medical and dental services?

About $17M a year, or $920 per household. That is 29% below the U.S. average (an index of 71, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, it comes to $17M per clinic. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only urgent care and walk-in clinics. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,487 households in the Ruston area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Ruston, LA area compare with the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics?

The Ruston area has 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of urgent care and walk-in clinics to household spending.

How fast is the Ruston, LA area growing?

Population estimates put the Ruston area at 48,360 people in 2025, up 0.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,487 households. The median household income in the Ruston area is $39,172 a year, 51% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 10.5% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Ruston area has no market score for urgent care and walk-in clinics: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.

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