Perla, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Perla town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 197 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #443 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 33.9 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 Perla town earn a median of not published a year. 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 20.3% 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 Perla town is valued at $93,000, 69.3% below the national figure and 28% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $520 a month, 63% below the national figure, or roughly $6,240 across a full year. 58.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 197 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Perla town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Perla 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.