Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetAR-MARKED-TREE-AR · Marked Tree, AR 2,235 pop · income 13th 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 Marked Tree
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Marked Tree on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Melbourne · lowest
34,303
Melbourne · lowest
34,303 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #1
Minorca · near
45,192
Minorca · near
45,192 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #2
Jennings · near
45,194
Jennings · near
45,194 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #3
Marked Tree · this city
45,197
Marked Tree · this city
45,197 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #4
Hillsboro · near
45,197
Hillsboro · near
45,197 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #5
Albany · near
45,201
Albany · near
45,201 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #6
Camanche · highest
156,480
Camanche · highest
156,480 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 Marked Tree 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: 2,235.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Marked Tree - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Marked Tree places in the 13th percentile for household income and the 51st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
5th
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
51st
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: Marked Tree, AR
Arkansas's Marked Tree is a small town, with 2,235 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Marked Tree brings in $45,197 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.9%. Home values in Marked Tree run a median of $85,700, and the median resident age is 52.1 years. About 15.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 8 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Low Activity). Marked Tree reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1331.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Arkansas run below the national norm: the state registers 86.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $944 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Arkansas run around $210, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Marked Tree'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to population change to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Marked Tree, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Marked Tree?
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 Star City (2,234 residents, $52,039 income); Melbourne (2,227 residents, $34,303 income); Fairfield Bay (2,247 residents, $54,735 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Vista Center, NJ (2,235 residents); Cumberland, KY (2,234 residents); Pequot Lakes, MN (2,236 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.
What does the education layer cover for Marked Tree?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 15.6% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Marked Tree?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Marked Tree growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -69 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
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 Marked Tree?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1331.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 42% lower 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
1331.5
Violent rate
413.2
Property rate
918.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Marked Tree?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.6%. 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.
Drive alone
75.6%
Work from home
2.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 863 workers age 16+.
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
413 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$45,197
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
20.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Marked Tree profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 22/100 (F) · 15.6%
Violent crime: 21/100 (F) · 413 /100k
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,197
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.9%
Where Marked Tree sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Marked Tree'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 - Marked Tree highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Marked Tree, AR (this city): home $85,700, crime 1,332/100k
Cumberland, KY : home $61,600, crime 505/100k
Marcus Hook, PA : home $108,000, crime 1,485/100k
Newtown, PA : home $721,700, crime 355/100k
Star City, AR : home $118,500, crime 2,754/100k
Fairfield Bay, AR : home $157,300, crime 1,602/100k
Gassville, AR : home $126,600, crime 1,428/100k
Eureka Springs, AR : home $246,900, crime 2,135/100k
How does Marked Tree compare to other US cities?
Marked Tree measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value5% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety51% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Arkansas alone, Marked Tree ranks #56 of 160 Arkansas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Marked Tree 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 Marked Tree near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Marked Tree ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Marked Tree only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#276 of 495
44th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#345 of 482
28th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#131 of 524
75th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#206 of 524
60th 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 51st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Marked Tree's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Marked Tree'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 Marked Tree's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$85,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 95% 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
Marked Tree's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,294 of 15,516
More affordable than 92% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,248 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Marked Tree sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,294 of 15,516 and #1,248 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
$45,197Marked Tree, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Marked Tree, 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 Marked Tree, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,235
Median Income
$45,197
Median Home Value
$85,700
Median Age
52.1
Poverty Rate
20.9%
Labor force participation
49.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1331.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
413.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
918.3
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Marked Tree's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,277 residents
2021
2,230 residents
2022
2,206 residents
2023
2,208 residents
2024
2,198 residents
2025
2,208 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
5
0
5
$0.6M
2021
2
0
2
$0.2M
2022
6
4
2
$0.6M
2023
10
10
0
$2.9M
2024
8
8
0
$2.3M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.6%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
11.4%
Work from Home
2.2%
Other
2.1%
Based on 863 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 Marked Tree. 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 Marked Tree 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 Marked Tree sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Marked Tree 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.