O'Kean, AR population, income and ZIP codes

O'Kean town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 164 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #469 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 51.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 O'Kean town earn a median of $53,393 a year, 32% below the national figure of $78,538 and 8% above 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 18.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in O'Kean town is valued at $56,100, 81.5% below the national figure and 56% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.1×, 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. 78.9% 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.

A median age of 51.9 puts O'Kean town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 164 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare O'Kean town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for O'Kean town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.