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SheetAR-SILOAM-SPRINGS-AR · Siloam Springs, AR 18,096 pop · income 44th 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 Siloam Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Siloam Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Harrison · lowest
40,568
Harrison · lowest
40,568 median HH income
35.9% of the leader · rank #1
Montevideo · near
65,724
Montevideo · near
65,724 median HH income
58.2% of the leader · rank #2
Slayton · near
65,724
Slayton · near
65,724 median HH income
58.2% of the leader · rank #3
Siloam Springs · this city
65,725
Siloam Springs · this city
65,725 median HH income
58.2% of the leader · rank #4
Safford · near
65,727
Safford · near
65,727 median HH income
58.2% of the leader · rank #5
Gilman · near
65,729
Gilman · near
65,729 median HH income
58.2% of the leader · rank #6
Centerton · highest
112,920
Centerton · highest
112,920 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 Siloam Springs 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: 18,096.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Siloam Springs - the verdict
Siloam Springs ranks in the 44th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
44th
percentile, household income
44th
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Siloam Springs, AR
Arkansas's Siloam Springs is a small town, with 18,096 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Siloam Springs report a median income of $65,725 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.7%. Home values in Siloam Springs run a median of $205,000, and the median resident age is 31.0 years. About 27.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 465 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 107% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1851.4 in FBI UCR data, near 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: 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. Monthly utility costs average around $210 across Arkansas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Siloam Springs'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 housing and income to population change to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Siloam Springs, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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
How far does income reach against housing in Siloam Springs?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.7%, 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.
Is Siloam Springs 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 +3,765 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +21.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 465 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 Siloam Springs?
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 1851.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 19% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Siloam Springs?
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are El Dorado (17,382 residents, $45,159 income); Maumelle (19,286 residents, $92,466 income); Centerton (20,212 residents, $112,920 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are McAlester, OK (18,098 residents); Burlington, KY (18,090 residents); Canby, OR (18,103 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Siloam Springs?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 27.1% 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
6
Bachelor's degree+
27.1%
Poverty estimate
9.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Siloam Springs?
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 79.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
7.8%
Drive alone
79.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 8,362 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 9.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
C-
City profile score · Siloam Springs, AR
50/100
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-
27.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$65,725
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
495 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Siloam Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.1%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,725
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.7%
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 495 /100k
Where Siloam Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Siloam Springs'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 - Siloam Springs highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Siloam Springs, AR (this city): home $205,000, crime 1,851/100k
McAlester, OK : home $137,500, crime 2,741/100k
Canby, OR : home $479,500, crime 1,114/100k
Sevierville, TN : home $264,000, crime 3,611/100k
Brenham, TX : home $223,200, crime 2,569/100k
El Dorado, AR : home $113,100, crime 4,806/100k
Maumelle, AR : home $276,900, crime 1,296/100k
Centerton, AR : home $295,500, crime 385/100k
Bryant, AR : home $223,400, crime 2,233/100k
Marion, AR : home $206,300, crime 2,871/100k
Harrison, AR : home $165,000, crime 2,107/100k
How does Siloam Springs compare to other US cities?
Siloam Springs measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Home value44% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Arkansas and the picture shifts: Siloam Springs ranks #85 of 160 Arkansas cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Siloam Springs 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 Siloam Springs near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Siloam Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Siloam Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#103 of 495
79th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#50 of 482
90th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#321 of 524
39th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#65 of 524
87th 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
44th percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Siloam Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Siloam Springs'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 Siloam Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$205,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 56% 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
Siloam Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,278 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,071 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Siloam Springs sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,278 of 15,516 and #1,071 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$65,725Siloam Springs, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Siloam Springs, 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 Siloam Springs, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
18,096
Median Income
$65,725
Median Home Value
$205,000
Median Age
31.0
Poverty Rate
9.7%
Labor force participation
61.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1851.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
495.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1356.0
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
Siloam Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
17,533 residents
2021
17,926 residents
2022
18,665 residents
2023
19,423 residents
2024
20,203 residents
2025
21,298 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
465
housing units authorized
Single-Family
405
detached homes
Multifamily
60
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
225
152
73
$23.6M
2020
234
73
161
$23.2M
2021
345
191
154
$31.3M
2022
395
147
248
$36.9M
2023
317
317
0
$33.0M
2024
465
405
60
$49.0M
Permit volume increased 107% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.0%
Carpool
8.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
3.8%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
0.8%
Based on 8,362 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 Siloam Springs. 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 Siloam Springs 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 Siloam Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Siloam Springs 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.