ZIP code 72460

ZIP 72460 is a very small community in Randolph County, Arkansas, with 794 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #370 of 614 ranked by population — larger than 39% of them. The median age here is 52.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 72460 earn a median of $46,691 a year, 40.5% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 72460 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $529 a month, 62.4% below the national figure, or roughly $6,348 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 80.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 52.3 puts ZIP 72460 well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 794 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 72460 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for ZIP 72460 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

ZIP 72460 is tabulated inside Randolph County, Arkansas, one of 9 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 614 across Arkansas. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 72460 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 72460 reports a median household income of $46,691, 11% below the $52,640 county median, and 12% below the $52,862 typical AR ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $529 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 72460 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 72460 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.