Marianna, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Marianna city is a small town in Arkansas, with 3,502 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #97 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 40.8 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 Marianna city earn a median of $20,507 a year, 73.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 58% 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 41.3% 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 Marianna city is valued at $73,800, 75.7% below the national figure and 43% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $635 a month, 54.8% below the national figure, or roughly $7,620 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37.2% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 37.6% 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.

Marianna city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 37.2% of median income while homes cost only 3.6× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.