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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-MAUMELLE-AR · Maumelle, AR 19,286 pop · income 73rd 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 Maumelle
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Maumelle on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
El Dorado · lowest
45,159
El Dorado · lowest
45,159 median HH income
34.5% of the leader · rank #1
Nashua · near
92,457
Nashua · near
92,457 median HH income
70.7% of the leader · rank #2
Avimor · near
92,458
Avimor · near
92,458 median HH income
70.7% of the leader · rank #3
Maumelle · this city
92,466
Maumelle · this city
92,466 median HH income
70.7% of the leader · rank #4
Meadow View A… · near
92,470
Meadow View A… · near
92,470 median HH income
70.7% of the leader · rank #5
Salem Heights… · near
92,478
Salem Heights… · near
92,478 median HH income
70.7% of the leader · rank #6
St. Michael · highest
130,814
St. Michael · highest
130,814 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 Maumelle 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: 19,286.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Maumelle - the verdict
Nationally, Maumelle sits in the 73rd percentile for household income and the 52nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
73rd
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
52nd
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: Maumelle, AR
Maumelle is a small town in Arkansas, home to 19,286 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Maumelle households earn a median of $92,466 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.0%. Typical homes in Maumelle are valued around $276,900, and the median resident age is 38.6 years. About 50.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 102 residential building permits were authorized in Maumelle (Building Boom), up 55% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Maumelle reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1296.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below 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: 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arkansas's average monthly utility costs around $210 (state average). 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 Maumelle'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 schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Maumelle, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, 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
What does the education layer cover for Maumelle?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 50.9% 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Maumelle?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Maumelle?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Maumelle?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Centerton (20,212 residents, $112,920 income); Siloam Springs (18,096 residents, $65,725 income); Bryant (21,125 residents, $83,219 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Prunedale, CA (19,286 residents); Trinity, FL (19,296 residents); Maitland, FL (19,268 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.
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.
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.
Population change
Is Maumelle growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +535 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 102 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+2.8%
2025 estimate
19,780
2020 estimate
19,245
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Maumelle?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1296.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 43% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1117.0
Violent rate
179.3
Total reported rate
1296.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 6.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
B
City profile score · Maumelle, AR
72/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A
50.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B
$92,466
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
179 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Maumelle profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 50.9%
Household income: 72/100 (B) · $92,466
Poverty rate: 59/100 (C) · 6.0%
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 179 /100k
Where Maumelle sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Maumelle'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 - Maumelle highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Maumelle, AR (this city): home $276,900, crime 1,296/100k
Maitland, FL : home $526,400, crime 1,479/100k
Santa Fe Springs, CA : home $624,700, crime 7,066/100k
Centerton, AR : home $295,500, crime 385/100k
Siloam Springs, AR : home $205,000, crime 1,851/100k
Bryant, AR : home $223,400, crime 2,233/100k
El Dorado, AR : home $113,100, crime 4,806/100k
Searcy, AR : home $176,200, crime 2,667/100k
Van Buren, AR : home $178,000, crime 2,520/100k
How does Maumelle compare to other US cities?
Where Maumelle sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income73% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety52% 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, Maumelle ranks #52 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 Maumelle 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 Maumelle near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Maumelle ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Maumelle only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#24 of 495
95th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#18 of 482
96th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#398 of 524
24th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#6 of 524
99th 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
73rd percentile nationally for median household income · 52nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Maumelle's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Maumelle'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 Maumelle's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$276,90039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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
Maumelle's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,660 of 15,516
More affordable than 57% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#893 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Maumelle sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,660 of 15,516 and #893 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$92,466Maumelle, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Maumelle, 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 Maumelle, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,286
Median Income
$92,466
Median Home Value
$276,900
Median Age
38.6
Poverty Rate
6.0%
Labor force participation
63.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1296.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
179.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1117.0
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Maumelle's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,245 residents
2021
19,238 residents
2022
19,355 residents
2023
19,451 residents
2024
19,591 residents
2025
19,780 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
102
housing units authorized
Single-Family
102
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
66
66
0
$17.7M
2020
80
80
0
$23.8M
2021
99
99
0
$34.5M
2022
85
85
0
$26.0M
2023
78
78
0
$25.7M
2024
102
102
0
$51.9M
Permit volume increased 55% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
7.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
18.6%
Based on 9,581 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 Maumelle. 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 Maumelle 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 Maumelle sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Maumelle 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.