What is the population of Chicot County?

Chicot County has 9,997 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Chicot County?

Median household income in Chicot County is $39,683 a year, 49.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Chicot County?

Median gross rent is $661 a month and the median home value is $90,500, so rent absorbs about 20% of median household income.

Is Chicot County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Chicot County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Arkansas · FIPS 05017

Chicot ZIP codes — Chicot County, Arkansas

Quick answer

Chicot County is home to 9,997 residents with a median household income of $39,683 and a median home value of $90,500. 67.4% of households own their home and 24.4% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Chicot ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Chicot County, Arkansas, listed in full below.

Population: 9,997Chicot County residents
Median household income: $39,683Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $90,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $661Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 42.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 67.4%Owner-occupied households

Chicot County, AR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Chicot County is a mid-size town in Arkansas, with 9,997 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 42.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Chicot County earn a median of $39,683 a year, 49.5% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 24.4% 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 Chicot County is valued at $90,500, 70.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $661 a month, 53% below the national figure, or roughly $7,932 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, 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. 67.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

ZIP codes in Chicot County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Chicot County.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Cities and towns in Arkansas

Largest Census places in Arkansas by population.

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Other counties in Arkansas.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Chicot County?: Chicot County has 9,997 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Chicot County?: Median household income in Chicot County is $39,683 a year, 49.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Chicot County?: Median gross rent is $661 a month and the median home value is $90,500, so rent absorbs about 20% of median household income.
Is Chicot County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Chicot County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Chicot County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.