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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-BEEBE-AR · Beebe, AR 8,580 pop · income 30th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Beebe
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beebe on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Monticello · lowest
27,998
Monticello · lowest
27,998 median HH income
22.6% of the leader · rank #1
Grove City · near
56,420
Grove City · near
56,420 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #2
Clay Center · near
56,422
Clay Center · near
56,422 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #3
Beebe · this city
56,424
Beebe · this city
56,424 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #4
White Sulphur… · near
56,424
White Sulphur… · near
56,424 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #5
Steen · near
56,429
Steen · near
56,429 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #6
West Long Bra… · highest
123,661
West Long Bra… · highest
123,661 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Beebe on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 8,580.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Beebe - the verdict
Beebe ranks in the 30th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
30th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
25th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Beebe, AR
Arkansas's Beebe is a small town, with 8,580 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Beebe brings in $56,424 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.2%. Typical homes in Beebe are valued around $163,400, and the median resident age is 40.1 years. Educational attainment runs 19.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 113 residential building permits were authorized in Beebe (Building Boom), up 465% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2383.1 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Arkansas run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Arkansas scores 86.9 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $944 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $210 across Arkansas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 55.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Beebe's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from population change to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beebe, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Beebe growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +965 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 113 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 19.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Which cities make useful reference points for Beebe?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Farmington (8,469 residents, $88,541 income); Hope (8,787 residents, $44,353 income); Monticello (8,320 residents, $27,998 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are West Long Branch, NJ (8,576 residents); Sonterra, TX (8,576 residents); Sutherlin, OR (8,574 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Beebe?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2383.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
2383.1
Violent rate
709.4
Property rate
1673.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Beebe?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$163,400
Household income
$56,424
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 6.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
D
City profile score · Beebe, AR
44/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
86.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate C
6.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$56,424
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
709 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Beebe profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.7%
Household income: 29/100 (F) · $56,424
Violent crime: 5/100 (F) · 709 /100k
Where Beebe sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Beebe's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Beebe highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Beebe, AR (this city): home $163,400, crime 2,383/100k
West Long Branch, NJ : home $631,300, crime 1,194/100k
Sutherlin, OR : home $261,700, crime 1,933/100k
Arab, AL : home $196,700, crime 3,806/100k
Farmington, AR : home $249,900, crime 594/100k
Hope, AR : home $87,800, crime 3,908/100k
Monticello, AR : home $128,900, crime 1,779/100k
Wynne, AR : home $125,300, crime 4,470/100k
Stuttgart, AR : home $150,600, crime 3,599/100k
Newport, AR : home $132,200, crime 1,725/100k
How does Beebe compare to other US cities?
Beebe measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Arkansas, Beebe ranks #104 of 160 Arkansas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Beebe against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Arkansas only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Arkansas-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Beebe near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beebe ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beebe only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#168 of 495
66th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#106 of 482
78th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#394 of 524
25th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#134 of 524
74th percentile in Arkansas
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Arkansas only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
30th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Beebe's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Beebe's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Beebe's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$163,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Beebe's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,099 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,231 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Beebe sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,099 of 15,516 and #5,231 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$56,424Beebe, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beebe, AR median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Beebe, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,580
Median Income
$56,424
Median Home Value
$163,400
Median Age
40.1
Poverty Rate
6.2%
Labor force participation
54.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2383.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
709.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1673.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Beebe's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,412 residents
2021
8,485 residents
2022
8,700 residents
2023
8,872 residents
2024
9,087 residents
2025
9,377 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
113
housing units authorized
Single-Family
77
detached homes
Multifamily
36
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
20
16
4
$2.7M
2020
57
51
6
$6.8M
2021
80
80
0
$12.0M
2022
99
99
0
$16.2M
2023
96
96
0
$15.8M
2024
113
77
36
$15.0M
Permit volume increased 465% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.0%
Carpool
14.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
2.8%
Other
1.9%
Based on 3,738 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Arkansas statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $210
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Arkansas at $210 (electricity about $110 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Arkansas statewide averages, not a meter reading for Beebe. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Arkansas's BEA cost-of-living index is 86.9 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Beebe is $944/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Arkansas statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Arkansas statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Beebe sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beebe compares to similar-size Arkansas cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.