What is the population of Gurdon city?

Gurdon city has 1,777 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #160 of 625 in Arkansas.

What is the median household income in Gurdon city?

Median household income in Gurdon city is $45,769 a year, 41.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $652 a month and the median home value is $94,300, so rent absorbs about 17.1% of median household income.

Is Gurdon 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 Gurdon city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Gurdon, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Gurdon, Arkansas (Gurdon, AR — Census place “Gurdon city”) is 1,777 residents, ranking #160 of 625 places in Arkansas. Median household income is $45,769, the median home is worth $94,300 and median gross rent runs $652 a month. Looking for the Gurdon Arkansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Gurdon, AR: 71743.

Population: 1,777Gurdon city residents
Median household income: $45,769Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $94,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $652Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 58.9%Owner-occupied households

Gurdon ZIP codes (Arkansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Gurdon.

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

71743

What the numbers mean in Gurdon city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Gurdon city median would spend about 17.1% 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 58.9% of households own their home.

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

Gurdon city, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Gurdon city is a small town in Arkansas, with 1,777 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #160 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 74% of them. The median age here is 37.5 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 Gurdon city earn a median of $45,769 a year, 41.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% 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 12.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gurdon city is valued at $94,300, 68.9% below the national figure and 27% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $652 a month, 53.6% below the national figure, or roughly $7,824 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 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. 58.9% 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.

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 Gurdon city?: Gurdon city has 1,777 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #160 of 625 in Arkansas.
What is the median household income in Gurdon city?: Median household income in Gurdon city is $45,769 a year, 41.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Gurdon city?: Median gross rent is $652 a month and the median home value is $94,300, so rent absorbs about 17.1% of median household income.
Is Gurdon 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 Gurdon city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Gurdon 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.