
Arkansas · FIPS 05149
Yell ZIP codes — Yell County, Arkansas
Quick answer
Yell County is home to 20,195 residents with a median household income of $58,870 and a median home value of $131,300. 67.5% of households own their home and 13.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Yell ZIP code? 11 ZIP code areas fall inside Yell County, Arkansas, listed in full below.
- Population
- 20,195Yell County residents
- Median household income
- $58,870Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $131,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $653Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 39.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 67.5%Owner-occupied households
Yell County, AR in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Yell County is a mid-size town in Arkansas, with 20,195 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.9 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 Yell County earn a median of $58,870 a year, 25% 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 13.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Yell County is valued at $131,300, 56.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $653 a month, 53.6% below the national figure, or roughly $7,836 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.3% 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 2.2×, 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. 67.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.
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 Yell County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Yell 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.
- Little Rock city 202,739
- Fayetteville city 97,227
- Fort Smith city 89,496
- Springdale city 87,388
- Jonesboro city 79,187
- Rogers city 71,411
- Conway city 66,288
- North Little Rock city 64,504
- Bentonville city 56,326
- Pine Bluff city 40,436
- Hot Springs city 38,023
- Benton city 35,954
Nearby counties
Other counties in Arkansas.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Yell County?
- Yell County has 20,195 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Yell County?
- Median household income in Yell County is $58,870 a year, 25% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yell County?
- Median gross rent is $653 a month and the median home value is $131,300, so rent absorbs about 13.3% of median household income.
- Is Yell County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yell County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Yell 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.