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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-ROGERS-AR · Rogers, AR 71,411 pop · income 65th 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 Rogers
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rogers on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Camden · lowest
40,450
Camden · lowest
40,450 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #1
Mount Hermon · near
82,986
Mount Hermon · near
82,986 median HH income
76.5% of the leader · rank #2
Rogers · this city
82,993
Rogers · this city
82,993 median HH income
76.5% of the leader · rank #3
Blairsburg · near
83,000
Blairsburg · near
83,000 median HH income
76.5% of the leader · rank #4
Smithland · near
83,000
Smithland · near
83,000 median HH income
76.5% of the leader · rank #5
Trenton · near
83,000
Trenton · near
83,000 median HH income
76.5% of the leader · rank #6
Bentonville · highest
108,465
Bentonville · highest
108,465 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 Rogers 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: 71,411.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rogers - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Rogers places in the 65th percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
65th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
42nd
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: Rogers, AR
Arkansas's Rogers is a small city, with 71,411 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Rogers brings in $82,993 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.4%. Rogers's housing stock carries a median value of $278,000, and the median resident age is 34.1 years. About 33.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 633 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 14% from five years earlier. Rogers reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1616.1 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Arkansas scores 86.9 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $944 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Arkansas run around $210, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 55.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Rogers'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 to population change to housing and income to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rogers, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Rogers?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rogers?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Conway (66,288 residents, $58,461 income); North Little Rock (64,504 residents, $51,236 income); Jonesboro (79,187 residents, $52,559 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Johnson City, TN (71,455 residents); Camden, NJ (71,471 residents); Lake Elsinore, CA (71,516 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.
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 +6,866 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 633 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Rogers?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.4%, 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.
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 Rogers?
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 1616.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 29% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1274.8
Violent rate
341.3
Total reported rate
1616.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 27 public schools within the city match. 33.8% 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.
Matched public schools
27
Bachelor's degree+
33.8%
Poverty estimate
8.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 8.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
C
City profile score · Rogers, AR
59/100
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 C+
33.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$82,993
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
341 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Rogers profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.8%
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,993
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.4%
Violent crime: 27/100 (F) · 341 /100k
Where Rogers sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rogers'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 - Rogers highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Rogers, AR (this city): home $278,000, crime 1,616/100k
Johnson City, TN : home $238,000, crime 2,705/100k
Lake Elsinore, CA : home $505,700, crime 2,027/100k
St. Joseph, MO : home $144,200, crime 4,580/100k
Blaine, MN : home $327,500, crime 1,500/100k
Marysville, WA : home $521,500, crime 2,187/100k
Conway, AR : home $234,600, crime 2,571/100k
North Little Rock, AR : home $169,500, crime 5,493/100k
Jonesboro, AR : home $213,400, crime 3,765/100k
Bentonville, AR : home $370,700, crime 1,083/100k
Springdale, AR : home $237,200, crime 2,412/100k
Fort Smith, AR : home $168,100, crime 4,527/100k
How does Rogers compare to other US cities?
Rogers measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety42% 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, Rogers ranks #73 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 Rogers 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 Rogers near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rogers ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rogers only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#43 of 495
91st percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#17 of 482
96th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#349 of 524
33rd percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#33 of 524
94th 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rogers's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rogers'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 Rogers's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$278,00039th 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
Rogers's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,336 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#177 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Rogers sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,336 of 15,516 and #177 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$82,993Rogers, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rogers, 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 Rogers, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
71,411
Median Income
$82,993
Median Home Value
$278,000
Median Age
34.1
Poverty Rate
8.4%
Labor force participation
67.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1616.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
341.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1274.8
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
27
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rogers's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
70,090 residents
2021
71,130 residents
2022
72,873 residents
2023
73,971 residents
2024
75,499 residents
2025
76,956 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
633
housing units authorized
Single-Family
473
detached homes
Multifamily
160
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
734
447
287
$119.1M
2020
725
500
225
$125.5M
2021
851
576
275
$145.8M
2022
828
495
333
$133.5M
2023
733
468
265
$122.0M
2024
633
473
160
$124.3M
Permit volume decreased 14% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.0%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
12.0%
Other
0.6%
Based on 36,380 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 Rogers. 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 Rogers 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 Rogers sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rogers 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.