Central City, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Central City town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 570 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #279 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 55% of them. The median age here is 41.5 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 Central City town earn a median of $71,071 a year, 9.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 44% 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 12.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Central City town is valued at $123,000, 59.5% below the national figure and 5% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,014 a month, 27.9% below the national figure, or roughly $12,168 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.1% 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 1.7×, 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. 88.1% 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. 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.

With 570 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Central City town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.