Banks Springs, Louisiana
Banks Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1136. It is located near the center of Caldwell Parish south of Columbia, the parish seat, and north of Grayson. The CDP includes the neighborhood of Columbia Heights.
U.S. Route 165 passes through the center of Banks Springs, leading north to Monroe and southwest to Alexandria.
The community was home to one of the Rosenwald Schools in the 19th-century.
Demographics
Banks Springs was first listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.| Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2010 | Pop 2020 | % 2010 | % 2020 |
| White alone | 511 | 485 | 42.87% | 42.69% |
| Black or African American alone | 629 | 566 | 52.77% | 49.82% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone | 1 | 1 | 0.08% | 0.09% |
| Asian alone | 10 | 4 | 0.84% | 0.35% |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Other race alone | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | 0.18% |
| Mixed race or Multiracial | 20 | 48 | 1.68% | 4.23% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 21 | 30 | 1.76% | 2.64% |
| Total | 1,192 | 1,136 | 100.00% | 100.00% |