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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-SHANNON-HILLS-AR · Shannon Hills, AR 4,557 pop · income 49th 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 Shannon Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Shannon Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Crossett · lowest
42,792
Crossett · lowest
42,792 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #1
Arcadia · near
69,408
Arcadia · near
69,408 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #2
Shannon Hills · this city
69,413
Shannon Hills · this city
69,413 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #3
Fish Lake · near
69,417
Fish Lake · near
69,417 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #4
Mooers · near
69,417
Mooers · near
69,417 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #5
Quantico Base · near
69,419
Quantico Base · near
69,419 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #6
Southampton · highest
177,045
Southampton · highest
177,045 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 Shannon Hills 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: 4,557.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Shannon Hills - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Shannon Hills places in the 49th percentile for household income and the 66th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
49th
percentile, household income
35th
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: Shannon Hills, AR
4,557 people live in Shannon Hills, Arkansas - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Shannon Hills households earn a median of $69,413 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.5%. Home values in Shannon Hills run a median of $175,200, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. About 14.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 9 residential building permits were authorized in Shannon Hills (Construction Slowdown), down 71% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Shannon Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 948.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Arkansas run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Arkansas at 86.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). 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. Workers in Shannon Hills report an average commute of 21.7 minutes, with 80.4% driving alone and 11.5% working from home. 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 Shannon Hills'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 population change to reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Shannon Hills, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; 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 Shannon Hills?
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 80.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.7 minutes.
Is Shannon Hills 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 +306 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 9 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Shannon Hills?
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 948.8 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Shannon Hills?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Dardanelle (4,517 residents, $43,287 income); Piney (4,485 residents, $49,002 income); Vilonia (4,405 residents, $82,753 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Floyds Knobs, IN (4,557 residents); Southampton, NY (4,557 residents); Cortland, IL (4,556 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Shannon Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.5%, 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.
Household income
$69,413
Home value
$175,200
Value / income
2.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 4.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
C
City profile score · Shannon Hills, AR
56/100
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$69,413
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
253 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Shannon Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.5%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,413
Violent crime: 40/100 (D) · 253 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.1%
Where Shannon Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Shannon Hills'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 - Shannon Hills highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Shannon Hills, AR (this city): home $175,200, crime 949/100k
Cortland, IL : home $203,700, crime 509/100k
Ranlo, NC : home $184,500, crime 1,082/100k
Whiting, IN : home $204,800, crime 2,007/100k
Dardanelle, AR : home $123,200, crime 1,155/100k
Vilonia, AR : home $210,700, crime 924/100k
Crossett, AR : home $101,200, crime 3,617/100k
Lonoke, AR : home $123,700, crime 3,059/100k
How does Shannon Hills compare to other US cities?
Where Shannon Hills sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value35% 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, Shannon Hills ranks #34 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 Shannon Hills 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 Shannon Hills near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Shannon Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Shannon Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#83 of 495
83rd percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#87 of 482
82nd percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#418 of 524
20th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#245 of 524
53rd 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income · 66th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Shannon Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Shannon Hills'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 Shannon Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$175,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
Shannon Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,131 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,715 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Shannon Hills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,131 of 15,516 and #3,715 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
$69,413Shannon Hills, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Shannon Hills, 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 Shannon Hills, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,557
Median Income
$69,413
Median Home Value
$175,200
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
4.5%
Labor force participation
53.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
948.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
253.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
695.8
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Shannon Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,523 residents
2021
4,594 residents
2022
4,664 residents
2023
4,721 residents
2024
4,788 residents
2025
4,829 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
9
housing units authorized
Single-Family
9
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
31
31
0
$2.5M
2020
16
16
0
$1.3M
2021
13
13
0
$1.7M
2022
5
5
0
$0.7M
2023
4
4
0
$0.6M
2024
9
9
0
$2.0M
Permit volume decreased 71% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.7 minutes
Drive Alone
80.4%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
11.5%
Based on 2,016 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 Shannon Hills. 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 Shannon Hills 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 Shannon Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Shannon Hills 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, 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.