Sulphur Springs city, AR population, income and ZIP codes

Sulphur Springs city is a very small community in Arkansas, with 516 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #290 of 625 ranked by population — larger than 53% of them. The median age here is 30.6 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 Springs city earn a median of $34,500 a year, 56.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% below the $49,306 median for the 209 Arkansas cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 33.7% 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 Springs city is valued at $110,700, 63.5% below the national figure and 14% below the $128,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $874 a month, 37.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,488 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.9% 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.

Sulphur Springs city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.4% of median income while homes cost only 3.2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 516 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sulphur Springs city 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.