What is the population of Brinkley city?

Brinkley city has 2,651 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #119 of 625 in Arkansas.

What is the median household income in Brinkley city?

Median household income in Brinkley city is $38,285 a year, 51.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brinkley city?

Median gross rent is $605 a month and the median home value is $84,000, so rent absorbs about 19% of median household income.

Is Brinkley city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brinkley city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Arkansas · Census place 08950

Brinkley, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Brinkley, Arkansas (Brinkley, AR — Census place “Brinkley city”) is 2,651 residents, ranking #119 of 625 places in Arkansas. Median household income is $38,285, the median home is worth $84,000 and median gross rent runs $605 a month. Looking for the Brinkley Arkansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Brinkley, AR: 72021.

Population: 2,651Brinkley city residents
Median household income: $38,285Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $84,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $605Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 44.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 63.1%Owner-occupied households

Brinkley ZIP codes (Arkansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Brinkley.

The Brinkley AR ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

72021

What the numbers mean in Brinkley city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Brinkley city median would spend about 19% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 30.9% of residents and 63.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Brinkley city, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Brinkley city is a small town in Arkansas, with 2,651 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #119 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 44.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Brinkley city earn a median of $38,285 a year, 51.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 22% below the $49,306 median for the 209 Arkansas cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 30.9% 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 Brinkley city is valued at $84,000, 72.3% below the national figure and 35% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $605 a month, 57% below the national figure, or roughly $7,260 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19% 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 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 63.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Brinkley city?: Brinkley city has 2,651 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #119 of 625 in Arkansas.
What is the median household income in Brinkley city?: Median household income in Brinkley city is $38,285 a year, 51.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brinkley city?: Median gross rent is $605 a month and the median home value is $84,000, so rent absorbs about 19% of median household income.
Is Brinkley city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brinkley city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Brinkley city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.