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2025 income · Census CPS ASEC 2026

Household money income in Arkansas

The whole household’s total for the year. Commas, a $ sign, or k and m work.
What counts as household income

Add up the money income of everyone in the household, received on a regular basis before taxes and other deductions: wages and salaries, self-employment income, Social Security, pensions, interest, and similar payments. Leave out capital gains and noncash benefits such as food assistance, health benefits, and subsidized housing. Census money-income definition.

You, among 100 Arkansas households
$0$10k$25k$50k$100k$200ktop 5 not drawn#1 lowest#100 highestYou: enter an amount

Each tick is one household in 100, from lowest to highest 2025 income. The curve above them is what each one made, on a scale that spreads out the lower incomes. Incomes above the 95th percentile are not drawn.

Arkansas among the 50 states and D.C.

#47 of 51 by median household income.

US $87,288AR
MS $58kMA $118k
The 50 states and D.C., sorted by 2025 median household income, lowest at left. The bracket spans Arkansas and the 2 states whose medians are within Census’s ±$3,967 standard error for Arkansas, so read the rank as a neighborhood rather than an exact place.
Arkansas median
$67,812

Census’s published estimate is $68,060, with a standard error of $3,967.

Gap to the US median
−$19,476

The US median is $87,288, so the Arkansas median is 22.3% below it.

Arkansas median at US-average prices
$78,001

Prices in Arkansas were 86.9 in 2024 on the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s regional price parities (US = 100), so its median buys about what $78,001 does at US-average prices. With every US household adjusted for its own state’s prices, the US median is $88,213.

Top 10% of Arkansas households starts at
$205,658

Nationally, the top 10% starts at $261,248.

Source: Census CPS ASEC 2026 · income year 2025 · 882 Arkansas households in the sample (53,344 US) · above the 95th percentile not ranked · prices: BEA regional price parities, 2024 · SHA-256 fe819d0d…7d93

Arkansas household income ladder

PercentileArkansasUnited States
p10$18,020$20,005
p25$35,801$43,708
p50 (median)$67,812$87,288
p75$125,447$159,510
p90$205,658$261,248
p95$267,601$354,000

Reading the upper percentiles: this table stops at p95. State samples are smaller than the national sample, so treat positions near the top as broad bands, not exact cutoffs. The calculator does not compute replicate-weight confidence intervals.

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