Etowah, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Etowah town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 306 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #387 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 42.2 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 Etowah town earn a median of $23,125 a year, 70.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 53% 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 39.5% 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 Etowah town is valued at $80,600, 73.4% below the national figure and 37% below 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. A household on the local median income would put about 32.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 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. 63.4% 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.

Etowah town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 32.8% of median income while homes cost only 3.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 306 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Etowah town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.