Sulphur Rock, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Sulphur Rock town is a very small community in Arkansas, with 747 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #249 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 30.3 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 Sulphur Rock town earn a median of $49,440 a year, 37% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 20.7% 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 Sulphur Rock town is valued at $150,700, 50.3% below the national figure and 17% above the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $774 a month, 45% below the national figure, or roughly $9,288 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.8% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 37.9% 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.

With 747 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sulphur Rock town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.