Birdsong, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Birdsong town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 41 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #591 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 5% of them. The median age here is 67.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Birdsong town earn a median of $12,083 a year, 84.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 75% below 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 53.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Birdsong town is valued at $52,500, 82.7% below the national figure and 59% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $279 a month, 80.2% below the national figure, or roughly $3,348 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 27.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 53.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 67.5 puts Birdsong town 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. With 41 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Birdsong town against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.