City · Yell County, Arkansas

Danville, Arkansas

Danville is a city in Yell County, Arkansas, part of the Russellville, AR metro area. It has 2,289 residents. Danville, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,295 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #153 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), students per teacher (low) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), suicide rate (high) and voter turnout (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,295 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #153 of 218 in AR
Population: 2,289 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 534.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 0517320

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety23#12,061/15,637
Economy8#14,387/15,631
Housing99#82/14,977
Health7#14,498/15,609
Healthcare14#13,393/15,650
Environment13#13,410/15,453
Education19#12,701/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,245/15,650
Community17#12,992/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,267/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Danville, Arkansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Yell County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Time spent in the emergency room · low83 min
99/100Arkansas 165 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesYell County value
Students per teacher · low9.6×
99/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsYell County value
Grocery stores · high4.0 /10k
98/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYell County value
Property crime rate · low255 /100k
98/100Arkansas 1,645 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationYell County value
Rent-burdened households · low26.6%
98/100Arkansas 44.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Average commute time · low11.9 min
97/100Arkansas 22.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013

Weaknesses

Preventable hospital stays · high6,054 /100k
0/100Arkansas 3,115 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYell County value
Suicide rate · high49.9 /100k
1/100Arkansas 17.9 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataYell County value
Voter turnout · low45.1%
1/100Arkansas 52.5%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionYell County value
Physical inactivity · high42.5%
2/100Arkansas 34.4%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Mammography screening · low29.0%
2/100Arkansas 43.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYell County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.0 /10k
2/100Arkansas 7.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYell County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
65.8% (2015-2019) → 80.8% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedImproving
1.0 /1k (2021) → 1.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+38%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$47,292 (2015-2019) → $64,420 (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.5% (2015-2019) → 7.3% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
18.0% (2015-2019) → 11.6% (2020-2024)
−6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
16.5% (2015-2019) → 11.6% (2020-2024)
−4.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Danville, Arkansas improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Broadband+15 points65.8% → 80.8%
Household income+36%$47,292 → $64,420

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Danville, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.5 min2015-2019	11.9 min2020-2024	−3.6 min	Within the margin of error	83%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.0%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−6.4 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Broadband subscriptions	65.8%2015-2019	80.8%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Child poverty rate	45.6%2015-2019	41.6%2020-2024	−4 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Effective property tax rate	0.75%2015-2019	0.44%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	76%
High school diploma or higher	77.0%2015-2019	79.4%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	83%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4082015-2019	0.3722020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$47,2922015-2019	$64,4202020-2024	+36%	Improved	67%
Poverty rate	25.0%2015-2019	26.0%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Rent as share of income	15.7%2015-2019	20.1%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Rent-burdened households	28.6%2015-2019	26.6%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.5%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−4.9 points	Within the margin of error	86%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Danville, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Danville, Arkansas in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Danville, Arkansas itself moved +2.7 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,289 residents (±375)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

783 households (±141)

Danville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k18%†140
$25k–50k23%†178
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

783 households (±141)

Danville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own53%416
Rent47%†367

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,060 workers (±221)

Danville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone73%770
Carpool16%†167
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Russellville, AR

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Yell County, the county holding most of Danville's residents.

Yell County has 323 employer establishments, 161 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.70× Arkansas's), with 4,950 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,682. The Census Bureau also counts 1,277 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 323; 1,277 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 161; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 4,950
Average annual pay: $42,682; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Yell County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	31	15.5	1.00×About typical	180	$50,283	167
Ambulatory health care services	27	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	112	$46,545	78
Religious organizations	21	10.5	1.89×More than typical	52	$22,788	—
Building equipment contractors	18	9	1.50×More than typical	74	$38,541	38
Restaurants and other eating places	17	8.5	0.46×Fewer than typical	213	$16,230	5
Offices of other health practitioners	15	7.5	1.23×About typical	28	$35,214	20
Truck transportation	14	7	1.38×More than typical	139	$56,410	65
Gasoline stations	12	6	1.85×More than typical	85	$24,906	—
Child day care services	11	5.5	2.25×More than typical	142	$23,317	14
Limited-service restaurants	10	5	0.62×Fewer than typical	180	$15,028	—
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	10	5	1.51×More than typical	28	$35,821	13
Banks and credit unions	9	4.5	1.39×Too few to compare	107	$48,963	—

Rank places for an industry Open Yell County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,003 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$1,179 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Danville, Arkansas: -$0.52 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$1,179; −103% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.52; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$1,3500.0%

Top recipients

MOI, INC.$1,3500.0%
MITCHELL'S NURSING HOME, INC.-$2,5290.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1.6KFY2017
1.2KFY2018
2.2KFY2019
13KFY2020
5.9KFY2021
82.2FY2023
91FY2024
43.9KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$1,3500.0%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Danville, Arkansas, so they do not add up across cities.

Danville, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Yell County, AR ($160.3K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Danville is mostly in Yell County.

See federal money in Yell County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Danville, Arkansas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Bruce WestermanR-AR-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.4%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Yell County14100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Russellville, AR20

Other cities and towns in Yell County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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