City · Chicot County, Arkansas

Dermott, Arkansas

Dermott is a city in Chicot County, Arkansas. It has 2,330 residents. Dermott, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,176 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #207 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), students per teacher (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on adult obesity (high), mental health care shortage (high) and math scores (low).

3Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,176 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #207 of 218 in AR
Population: 2,330 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 681.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 0518520

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety7#14,499/15,637
Economy0#15,612/15,631
Housing86#2,068/14,977
Health4#14,976/15,609
Healthcare25#11,679/15,650
Environment6#14,451/15,453
Education10#14,117/15,649
Infrastructure7#14,569/15,650
Community6#14,790/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,599/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Dermott, Arkansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Chicot 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

Pharmacies · high4.4 /10k
99/100Arkansas 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsChicot County value
Students per teacher · low9.4×
99/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsChicot County value
Public libraries · high3.2 /10k
96/100Arkansas 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesChicot County value
Grocery stores · high3.3 /10k
96/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsChicot County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low102 min
96/100Arkansas 165 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesChicot County value
Mental health providers · high582 /100k
92/100Arkansas 281 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChicot County value

Weaknesses

Adult obesity · high52.9%
0/100Arkansas 40.6%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Arkansas 12.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationChicot County value
Math scores · low2.16
0/100Arkansas 2.77United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChicot County value
Physical inactivity · high45.8%
1/100Arkansas 34.4%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median household income · low$27,212
1/100Arkansas $62,146United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Homicide rate · high20.3 /100k
1/100Arkansas 7.0 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataChicot County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,810 (2015-2019) → 2,330 (2020-2024)
−17%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
58.9% (2015-2019) → 32.0% (2020-2024)
−27 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
14.6 min (2015-2019) → 25.5 min (2020-2024)
+74%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
61.1% (2015-2019) → 73.3% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
76.2% (2015-2019) → 85.0% (2020-2024)
+8.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Poverty rateImproving
39.3% (2015-2019) → 31.7% (2020-2024)
−7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Dermott, Arkansas improved on 1 of 12 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.

Improved1

Broadband+12 points61.1% → 73.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Dermott, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.6 min2015-2019	25.5 min2020-2024	+10.9 min	Within the margin of error	2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.7%2015-2019	14.9%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Broadband subscriptions	61.1%2015-2019	73.3%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	69%
Effective property tax rate	0.69%2015-2019	0.58%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	37%
High school diploma or higher	76.2%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	+8.8 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	83%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5592015-2019	0.5302020-2024	−0.030	Within the margin of error	74%
Median household income	$27,0452015-2019	$27,2122020-2024	+0.6%	Within the margin of error	8%
Poverty rate	39.3%2015-2019	31.7%2020-2024	−7.6 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Rent as share of income	24.5%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Rent-burdened households	45.7%2015-2019	48.0%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.3%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	31%

“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 Dermott, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Dermott, 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, Dermott, Arkansas itself moved −4.3 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

2,330 residents (±329)

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

815 households (±140)

Dermott, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k49%396
$25k–50k20%†167
$50k–75k15%†123

Homes

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

Owners and renters

815 households (±140)

Dermott, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own60%488
Rent40%327

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

605 workers (±137)

Dermott, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone96%583
Carpool1.7%†10
Public transit1.5%†9

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 Chicot County, the county holding most of Dermott's residents.

Chicot County has 197 employer establishments, 207 for every 10,000 residents (0.83× the US rate of 248; 0.90× Arkansas's), with 2,164 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,997. The Census Bureau also counts 719 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 197; 719 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 207; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 2,164
Average annual pay: $39,997; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	11	11.6	0.56×Fewer than typical	270	$58,911	102
Restaurants and other eating places	11	11.6	0.63×Fewer than typical	87	$21,103	7
Specialty trade contractors	11	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	88	$61,489	29
Gasoline stations	9	9.5	2.92×Too few to compare	102	$26,725	—
Religious organizations	9	9.5	1.71×Too few to compare	23	$16,565	—
Banks and credit unions	8	8.4	2.60×Too few to compare	56	$52,036	—
Lessors of real estate	8	8.4	0.68×Too few to compare	11	$21,818	47
General merchandise stores	7	7.4	4.17×Too few to compare	57	$23,807	4
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	6	6.3	3.61×Too few to compare	17	$44,118	3
Child day care services	5	5.3	2.16×Too few to compare	47	$23,723	27
Commercial and industrial machinery repair	5	5.3	7.73×Too few to compare	37	$33,054	4
Health and personal care stores	5	5.3	1.98×Too few to compare	14	$41,571	13

Rank places for an industry Open Chicot County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,508 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 $1,389 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Dermott, Arkansas: $0.60 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,389; −98% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.60; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Department of the Army$1,389100%

Top recipients

PARKS MOWING SERVICE, L.L.C$1,389100%

Spending by fiscal year

3.7KFY2017
6.8KFY2018
289.9FY2019
5.7KFY2020
-631FY2021
15.2KFY2024
86.6KFY2025
1.4KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Facilities support services · 5612$1,389100%

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 Dermott, Arkansas, so they do not add up across cities.

Dermott, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Chicot County, AR ($86.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Chicot 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.

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

House

Eric A. "Rick" CrawfordR-AR-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.2%

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.

Chicot County7100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Chicot 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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