Oil Trough, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Oil Trough town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 281 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #400 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 36% of them. The median age here is 19.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Oil Trough town earn a median of $37,778 a year, 51.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% 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 49.1% 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 Oil Trough town is valued at $84,000, 72.3% below the national figure and 35% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 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. 76.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 19.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 281 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Oil Trough town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Oil Trough 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.