What is the population of Earle city?

Earle city has 1,421 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #176 of 625 in Arkansas.

What is the median household income in Earle city?

Median household income in Earle city is $26,985 a year, 65.6% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $591 a month and the median home value is $93,300, so rent absorbs about 26.3% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Earle city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 26.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Earle, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Earle, Arkansas (Earle, AR — Census place “Earle city”) is 1,421 residents, ranking #176 of 625 places in Arkansas. Median household income is $26,985, the median home is worth $93,300 and median gross rent runs $591 a month. Looking for the Earle Arkansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Earle, AR: 72331.

Population: 1,421Earle city residents
Median household income: $26,985Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $93,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $591Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 36.2%Owner-occupied households

Earle ZIP codes (Arkansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Earle.

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

72331

What the numbers mean in Earle city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Earle city median would spend about 26.3% 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 3.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 45.4% of residents and 36.2% of households own their home.

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

Earle city, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Earle city is a small town in Arkansas, with 1,421 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #176 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 36.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Earle city earn a median of $26,985 a year, 65.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 45% 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 45.4% 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 Earle city is valued at $93,300, 69.2% below the national figure and 28% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $591 a month, 58% below the national figure, or roughly $7,092 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.3% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 36.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 Earle city?: Earle city has 1,421 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #176 of 625 in Arkansas.
What is the median household income in Earle city?: Median household income in Earle city is $26,985 a year, 65.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Earle city?: Median gross rent is $591 a month and the median home value is $93,300, so rent absorbs about 26.3% of median household income.
Is Earle city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Earle city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 26.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Earle 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.