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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-POPLAR-GROVE-AR · Poplar Grove, AR 113 pop · income 86th 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 Poplar Grove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Poplar Grove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Goodnews Bay · lowest
29,167
Goodnews Bay · lowest
29,167 median HH income
11.7% of the leader · rank #1
River Road · near
116,087
River Road · near
116,087 median HH income
46.4% of the leader · rank #2
Edmonds · near
116,095
Edmonds · near
116,095 median HH income
46.4% of the leader · rank #3
Singac · near
116,136
Singac · near
116,136 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #4
Arcadia · near
116,142
Arcadia · near
116,142 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #5
Poplar Grove · this city
116,161
Poplar Grove · this city
116,161 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #6
Mountain Mead… · highest
250,001
Mountain Mead… · highest
250,001 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Poplar Grove on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 113.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Poplar Grove lands in the 86th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
86th
percentile, household income
3rd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Poplar Grove, AR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 113 residents in Poplar Grove, a small town within Arkansas. Poplar Grove households earn a median of $116,161 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. The median resident age is 60.0 years. 32.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 31.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $944 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $210 across Arkansas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Poplar Grove report an average commute of 9.1 minutes, with 100.0% driving alone and 0.0% working from home. 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 Poplar Grove'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Poplar Grove, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Poplar Grove?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 100.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 9.1 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Poplar Grove?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Acorn (115 residents, $91,759 income); Moorefield (115 residents, $65,833 income); Ratcliff (111 residents, $43,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Goodnews Bay, AK (113 residents); Kaibab, AZ (113 residents); Mabie, CA (113 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.
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Household income A-
$116,161
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Poplar Grove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,161
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.7%
How does Poplar Grove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Poplar Grove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Poplar Grove 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 Poplar Grove near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Poplar Grove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Poplar Grove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#8 of 495
98th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#467 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#38 of 524
93rd 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$116,161Poplar Grove, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Poplar Grove, 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 Poplar Grove, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)31.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
113
Median Income
$116,161
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
60.0
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
31.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
9.1 minutes
Drive Alone
100.0%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 35 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 Poplar Grove. 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 Poplar Grove 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 Poplar Grove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Poplar Grove 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, 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.