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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-SPRINGDALE-AR · Springdale, AR 87,388 pop · income 44th pct · 57 tracts
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 Springdale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Springdale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
North Little… · lowest
51,236
North Little… · lowest
51,236 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #1
Oriskany · near
66,042
Oriskany · near
66,042 median HH income
55.4% of the leader · rank #2
Blaine · near
66,042
Blaine · near
66,042 median HH income
55.4% of the leader · rank #3
Beavertown · near
66,042
Beavertown · near
66,042 median HH income
55.4% of the leader · rank #4
Springdale · this city
66,044
Springdale · this city
66,044 median HH income
55.4% of the leader · rank #5
Rensselaer · near
66,046
Rensselaer · near
66,046 median HH income
55.4% of the leader · rank #6
Troy · highest
119,299
Troy · highest
119,299 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 Springdale 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: 87,388.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Springdale - the verdict
Springdale ranks in the 44th percentile for household income and the 24th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
44th
percentile, household income
53rd
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
24th
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: Springdale, AR
87,388 people live in Springdale, Arkansas - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Springdale brings in $66,044 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.5%. Typical homes in Springdale are valued around $237,200, and the median resident age is 32.5 years. Educational attainment runs 23.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 737 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 160% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2411.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arkansas's average monthly utility costs around $210 (state average). 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 Springdale'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 population change to work and mobility to within-city variation to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Springdale, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Springdale growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,364 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 737 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Springdale?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What can 57 Census tracts reveal inside Springdale?
PlainCities matches 57 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Springdale?
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.
Within Arkansas, the closest population matches are Fort Smith (89,496 residents, $52,692 income); Jonesboro (79,187 residents, $52,559 income); Fayetteville (97,227 residents, $59,074 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Troy, MI (87,307 residents); Citrus Heights, CA (87,036 residents); Ogden, UT (86,973 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.
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 Springdale?
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.
The NCES join finds 30 public schools within the city match. 23.2% 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.
Poverty estimate
9.5%
Bachelor's degree+
23.2%
Matched public schools
30
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Springdale?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2411.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 6% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
2411.9
Violent rate
491.1
Property rate
1920.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Springdale?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.6×
Home value
$237,200
Household income
$66,044
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 9.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
86.9 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Arkansas average
D
City profile score · Springdale, AR
48/100
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 D
23.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$66,044
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
491 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Springdale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.2%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $66,044
Poverty rate: 42/100 (D) · 9.5%
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 491 /100k
Where Springdale sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Springdale'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 - Springdale highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Springdale, AR (this city): home $237,200, crime 2,412/100k
Troy, MI : home $396,800, crime 1,392/100k
Citrus Heights, CA : home $432,100, crime 2,566/100k
Ogden, UT : home $311,300, crime 2,431/100k
Duluth, MN : home $225,700, crime 3,174/100k
Santa Barbara, CA : home $1,466,400, crime 2,458/100k
Fort Smith, AR : home $168,100, crime 4,527/100k
Jonesboro, AR : home $213,400, crime 3,765/100k
Fayetteville, AR : home $322,500, crime 2,795/100k
Rogers, AR : home $278,000, crime 1,616/100k
Conway, AR : home $234,600, crime 2,571/100k
North Little Rock, AR : home $169,500, crime 5,493/100k
How does Springdale compare to other US cities?
Where Springdale sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Home value53% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety24% 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, Springdale ranks #106 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 Springdale 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 Springdale near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Springdale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Springdale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#96 of 495
81st percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#29 of 482
94th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#324 of 524
38th percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#94 of 524
82nd 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 · 24th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Springdale's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Springdale'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 Springdale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$237,20047th percentilemore affordable than 47% 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
Springdale's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,332 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#235 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.6×, Springdale sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,332 of 15,516 and #235 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
$66,044Springdale, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Springdale, 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 Springdale, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
87,388
Median Income
$66,044
Median Home Value
$237,200
Median Age
32.5
Poverty Rate
9.5%
Labor force participation
64.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2411.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
491.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1920.8
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
30
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Springdale's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
87,321 residents
2021
87,653 residents
2022
88,008 residents
2023
88,386 residents
2024
89,651 residents
2025
90,685 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
737
housing units authorized
Single-Family
737
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
284
284
0
$76.4M
2020
259
259
0
$65.7M
2021
226
226
0
$76.8M
2022
208
208
0
$84.6M
2023
388
388
0
$79.0M
2024
737
737
0
$205.7M
Permit volume increased 160% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.9%
Carpool
15.0%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
7.1%
Other
1.0%
Based on 40,898 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 Springdale. 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 Springdale 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 Springdale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Springdale 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.