Bella Vista, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Bella Vista city is a small city in Arkansas, with 30,935 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #14 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 51.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Bella Vista city earn a median of $85,932 a year, 9.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 74% above the $49,306 median for the 209 Arkansas cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bella Vista city is valued at $262,400, 13.5% below the national figure and 104% above the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,316 a month, 6.4% below the national figure, or roughly $15,792 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 88.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 51.5 puts Bella Vista city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.