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Place dossier plate
SheetAR-TEXARKANA-AR · Texarkana, AR 29,343 pop · income 16th pct · 14 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 Texarkana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Texarkana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jacksonville · lowest
46,947
Jacksonville · lowest
46,947 median HH income
39.4% of the leader · rank #1
Thornton · near
47,917
Thornton · near
47,917 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #2
Tri-City · near
47,922
Tri-City · near
47,922 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #3
Texarkana · this city
47,930
Texarkana · this city
47,930 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #4
Nanty-Glo · near
47,933
Nanty-Glo · near
47,933 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #5
New London · near
47,935
New London · near
47,935 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #6
Fleming Island · highest
119,046
Fleming Island · highest
119,046 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 Texarkana 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: 29,343.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Texarkana - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Texarkana places in the 16th percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
16th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
3rd
percentile, median rent
6th
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: Texarkana, AR
29,343 people live in Texarkana, Arkansas - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $47,930 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 16.7%. Home values in Texarkana run a median of $162,700, and the median resident age is 38.4 years. Educational attainment runs 16.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 21 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 25% from five years earlier. Texarkana's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 4397.9 in FBI UCR data, above 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: 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arkansas's average monthly utility costs around $210 (state average). The average commute for Texarkana workers runs 17.5 minutes, with 81.1% driving alone and 4.0% 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 Texarkana'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 comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to within-city variation to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Texarkana, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Texarkana?
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 Jacksonville (29,285 residents, $46,947 income); Russellville (29,057 residents, $48,708 income); Paragould (29,940 residents, $56,181 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Englewood, NJ (29,342 residents); Fleming Island, FL (29,351 residents); Fountain, CO (29,327 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.
Is Texarkana growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -189 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 21 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Texarkana?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4397.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 93% 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.
What can 14 Census tracts reveal inside Texarkana?
PlainCities matches 14 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.
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 Texarkana?
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 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.4×
Home value
$162,700
Household income
$47,930
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Texarkana?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.5 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
81.1%
Work from home
4.0%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 11,745 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Texarkana?
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 13 public schools within the city match. 16.7% 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
16.7%
Bachelor's degree+
16.7%
Matched public schools
13
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 F
16.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$47,930
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
823 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Texarkana profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 86.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.7%
Poverty rate: 19/100 (F) · 16.7%
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,930
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 823 /100k
Where Texarkana sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Texarkana'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 - Texarkana highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Texarkana, AR (this city): home $162,700, crime 4,398/100k
Englewood, NJ : home $497,500, crime 1,309/100k
Fountain, CO : home $374,600, crime 2,375/100k
Garfield Heights, OH : home $100,000, crime 2,334/100k
Oak Park, MI : home $198,500, crime 2,488/100k
Jacksonville, AR : home $155,300, crime 4,911/100k
Russellville, AR : home $166,500, crime 1,734/100k
Paragould, AR : home $175,400, crime 3,813/100k
Bella Vista, AR : home $262,400, crime 691/100k
Cabot, AR : home $197,000, crime 1,668/100k
Sherwood, AR : home $190,900, crime 2,571/100k
How does Texarkana compare to other US cities?
Texarkana measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent3% pricier than other cities
Safety6% 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, Texarkana ranks #146 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 Texarkana 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 Texarkana near the bottom of Arkansas's cities
Among the 524 Arkansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Texarkana ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Texarkana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#248 of 495
50th percentile in Arkansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 524
0th percentile in Arkansas
Median Home Value
#107 of 482
78th percentile in Arkansas
Poverty Rate
#195 of 524
62nd percentile in Arkansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#184 of 524
65th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Texarkana's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Texarkana'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 Texarkana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$162,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% 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
Texarkana's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,552 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,393 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Texarkana sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,552 of 15,516 and #1,393 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
$47,930Texarkana, AR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Texarkana, 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 Texarkana, AR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
29,343
Median Income
$47,930
Median Home Value
$162,700
Median Age
38.4
Poverty Rate
16.7%
Labor force participation
50.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4397.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
822.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3575.2
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
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Texarkana's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
29,312 residents
2021
29,138 residents
2022
29,199 residents
2023
29,182 residents
2024
29,101 residents
2025
29,123 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
21
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
28
28
0
$5.9M
2020
21
21
0
$5.0M
2021
28
28
0
$6.7M
2022
48
32
16
$9.9M
2023
36
20
16
$9.7M
2024
21
21
0
$7.1M
Permit volume decreased 25% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.5 minutes
Drive Alone
81.1%
Carpool
11.7%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
4.0%
Other
1.5%
Based on 11,745 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 Texarkana. 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 Texarkana 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 Texarkana sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Texarkana 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.