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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-PEA-RIDGE-AR · Pea Ridge, AR 7,348 pop · income 74th 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 Pea Ridge
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pea Ridge on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Morrilton · lowest
38,056
Morrilton · lowest
38,056 median HH income
21.5% of the leader · rank #1
Ware Place · near
93,611
Ware Place · near
93,611 median HH income
53.0% of the leader · rank #2
Pea Ridge · this city
93,627
Pea Ridge · this city
93,627 median HH income
53.0% of the leader · rank #3
Tumwater · near
93,635
Tumwater · near
93,635 median HH income
53.0% of the leader · rank #4
San Tan Valley · near
93,642
San Tan Valley · near
93,642 median HH income
53.0% of the leader · rank #5
Myrtlewood · near
93,646
Myrtlewood · near
93,646 median HH income
53.0% of the leader · rank #6
Cos Cob · highest
176,602
Cos Cob · highest
176,602 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 Pea Ridge 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: 7,348.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pea Ridge - the verdict
Pea Ridge ranks in the 74th percentile for household income and the 66th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
66th
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: Pea Ridge, AR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,348 residents in Pea Ridge, a small town within Arkansas. The typical household in Pea Ridge brings in $93,627 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Pea Ridge's housing stock carries a median value of $255,600, and the median resident age is 35.9 years. Educational attainment runs 24.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 404 residential building permits were authorized in Pea Ridge (Building Boom), up 312% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Pea Ridge reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 959.9 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $944 per month statewide. 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 Pea Ridge'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 population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pea Ridge, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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 Pea Ridge?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 24.0% 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 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Pea Ridge?
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 78.4%. 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 Pea Ridge?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, 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 Pea Ridge?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Trumann (7,432 residents, $38,079 income); Prairie Grove (7,445 residents, $58,556 income); Pocahontas (7,475 residents, $42,829 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Archbald, PA (7,348 residents); King, NC (7,345 residents); Bellbrook, OH (7,344 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 Pea Ridge 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 +4,559 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +68.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 404 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
+68.3%
2025 estimate
11,233
2020 estimate
6,674
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pea Ridge?
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 959.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 58% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
590.7
Violent rate
369.2
Total reported rate
959.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B
$93,627
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
369 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Pea Ridge profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $93,627
Bachelor's+ share: 46/100 (D) · 24.0%
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 369 /100k
Where Pea Ridge sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pea Ridge'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 - Pea Ridge highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Pea Ridge, AR (this city): home $255,600, crime 960/100k
Archbald, PA : home $211,400, crime 599/100k
King, NC : home $227,500, crime 1,276/100k
Bellbrook, OH : home $246,200, crime 497/100k
Salem, IL : home $99,800, crime 1,531/100k
Dunbar, WV : home $121,100, crime 2,122/100k
Trumann, AR : home $108,000, crime 3,719/100k
Prairie Grove, AR : home $226,800, crime 618/100k
Pocahontas, AR : home $107,500, crime 3,130/100k
Heber Springs, AR : home $152,900, crime 2,209/100k
Morrilton, AR : home $150,900, crime 3,347/100k
How does Pea Ridge compare to other US cities?
Where Pea Ridge sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety66% 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, Pea Ridge ranks #35 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 Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pea Ridge ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pea Ridge only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#21 of 495
96th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#23 of 482
95th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#459 of 524
12th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#87 of 524
83rd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 66th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pea Ridge's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pea Ridge'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 Pea Ridge's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$255,60043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% 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
Pea Ridge's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,194 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,535 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Pea Ridge sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,194 of 15,516 and #4,535 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
$93,627Pea Ridge, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pea Ridge, 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 Pea Ridge, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,348
Median Income
$93,627
Median Home Value
$255,600
Median Age
35.9
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
68.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
959.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
369.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
590.7
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pea Ridge's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,674 residents
2021
7,145 residents
2022
7,882 residents
2023
8,698 residents
2024
10,195 residents
2025
11,233 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
404
housing units authorized
Single-Family
388
detached homes
Multifamily
16
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
55
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
98
84
14
$24.2M
2020
206
189
17
$47.6M
2021
296
272
24
$71.5M
2022
357
303
54
$93.0M
2023
592
397
195
$119.8M
2024
404
388
16
$109.8M
Permit volume increased 312% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.4%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
16.1%
Based on 3,557 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 Pea Ridge. 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 Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pea Ridge 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.