ZIP code 72121

ZIP 72121 is a small town in White County, Arkansas, with 2,975 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #192 of 614 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 38.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 ZIP 72121 earn a median of $42,869 a year, 45.4% 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 15.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 72121 is valued at $169,000, 44.3% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $752 a month, 46.5% below the national figure, or roughly $9,024 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.1% 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 3.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.4% 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 72121 is tabulated inside White County, Arkansas, one of 16 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 614 across Arkansas. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 72121 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 72121 reports a median household income of $42,869, 16% below the $50,991 county median, and 19% below the $52,862 typical AR ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $169,000, 32% above the county figure and 41% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $752 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Arkansas charges 6.5% statewide, and local governments overlapping 72121 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 72121 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.