What is the population of Mena city?

Mena city has 5,605 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #65 of 625 in Arkansas.

What is the median household income in Mena city?

Median household income in Mena city is $50,875 a year, 35.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $720 a month and the median home value is $114,200, so rent absorbs about 17% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Mena city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Mena, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Mena, Arkansas (Mena, AR — Census place “Mena city”) is 5,605 residents, ranking #65 of 625 places in Arkansas. Median household income is $50,875, the median home is worth $114,200 and median gross rent runs $720 a month. Looking for the Mena Arkansas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Mena, AR: 71953.

Population: 5,605Mena city residents
Median household income: $50,875Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $114,200Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $720Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 76.3%Owner-occupied households

Mena ZIP codes (Arkansas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Mena.

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

71953

What the numbers mean in Mena city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Mena city median would spend about 17% 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 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17.5% of residents and 76.3% of households own their home.

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

Mena city, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Mena city is a mid-size town in Arkansas, with 5,605 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #65 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 89% of them. The median age here is 40.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Mena city earn a median of $50,875 a year, 35.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% above 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 17.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mena city is valued at $114,200, 62.4% below the national figure and 11% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $720 a month, 48.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,640 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17% 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 2.2×, 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. 76.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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 Mena city?: Mena city has 5,605 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #65 of 625 in Arkansas.
What is the median household income in Mena city?: Median household income in Mena city is $50,875 a year, 35.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Mena city?: Median gross rent is $720 a month and the median home value is $114,200, so rent absorbs about 17% of median household income.
Is Mena city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Mena city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Mena city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.