What is the population of Fordyce city?

Fordyce city has 3,320 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #100 of 625 in Arkansas.

What is the median household income in Fordyce city?

Median household income in Fordyce city is $43,056 a year, 45.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $642 a month and the median home value is $92,500, so rent absorbs about 17.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fordyce city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Fordyce, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Fordyce, Arkansas (Fordyce, AR — Census place “Fordyce city”) is 3,320 residents, ranking #100 of 625 places in Arkansas. Median household income is $43,056, the median home is worth $92,500 and median gross rent runs $642 a month. Looking for the Fordyce Arkansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Fordyce, AR: 71742.

Population: 3,320Fordyce city residents
Median household income: $43,056Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $92,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $642Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 60%Owner-occupied households

Fordyce ZIP codes (Arkansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Fordyce.

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

71742

What the numbers mean in Fordyce city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Fordyce city median would spend about 17.9% 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 2.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.5% of residents and 60% of households own their home.

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

Fordyce city, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Fordyce city is a small town in Arkansas, with 3,320 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #100 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 37.7 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 Fordyce city earn a median of $43,056 a year, 45.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 13% below the $49,306 median for the 209 Arkansas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 12.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fordyce city is valued at $92,500, 69.5% below the national figure and 28% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $642 a month, 54.3% below the national figure, or roughly $7,704 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.9% 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 2.1×, 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. 60% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Fordyce city?: Fordyce city has 3,320 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #100 of 625 in Arkansas.
What is the median household income in Fordyce city?: Median household income in Fordyce city is $43,056 a year, 45.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Fordyce city?: Median gross rent is $642 a month and the median home value is $92,500, so rent absorbs about 17.9% of median household income.
Is Fordyce city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fordyce city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Fordyce 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.