Chester, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Chester town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 105 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #523 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 16% of them. The median age here is 41.3 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 Chester town earn a median of not published a year. 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 22.9% 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 Chester town is valued at $211,500, 30.3% below the national figure and 64% above the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $633 a month, 55% below the national figure, or roughly $7,596 across a full year. 58.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 105 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chester town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Chester town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.