Arkansas City, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Arkansas City city is a mid-size town in Kansas, with 11,909 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #30 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 35.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Arkansas City city earn a median of $53,475 a year, 31.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 16% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas 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 16.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Arkansas City city is valued at $81,700, 73.1% below the national figure and 38% below the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $762 a month, 45.8% below the national figure, or roughly $9,144 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.1% 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 1.5×, 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. 63.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.