City · Faulkner County, Arkansas

Greenbrier, Arkansas

Greenbrier is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro area. It has 6,018 residents. Greenbrier, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 38 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,744 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #34 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), drug overdose deaths (low) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), drought exposure (high) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high).

38Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,744 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #34 of 218 in AR
Population: 6,018 (2020-2024)
Land area: 8 mi²
Density: 757.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 0528510

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.

Safety28#11,181/15,637
Economy50#7,760/15,631
Housing93#1,023/14,977
Health47#8,285/15,609
Healthcare34#10,339/15,650
Environment4#14,759/15,453
Education42#9,094/15,649
Infrastructure88#1,895/15,650
Community14#13,473/15,651
Leisure & amenities28#11,195/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Broadband subscriptions · high97.1%
93/100Arkansas 86.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Drug overdose deaths · low7.3 /100k
92/100Arkansas 10.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataFaulkner County value
Rent-burdened households · low42.0%
88/100Arkansas 44.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.354
87/100Arkansas 0.479United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Effective property tax rate · low0.51%
86/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Rent as share of income · low27.3%
85/100Arkansas 27.6%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
6/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFaulkner County value
Drought exposure · high86%
8/100Arkansas 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAFaulkner County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.1 µg/m³
9/100Arkansas 8.6 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFaulkner County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Arkansas 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFaulkner County value
Food environment index · low6.7
10/100Arkansas 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFaulkner County value
Dental care shortage · high17.0
12/100Arkansas 13.7United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationFaulkner County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
5,478 (2015-2019) → 6,018 (2020-2024)
+9.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.7% (2015-2019) → 97.1% (2020-2024)
+27 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
56.8% (2015-2019) → 42.0% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
17.2% (2015-2019) → 6.1% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
19.1% (2015-2019) → 10.1% (2020-2024)
−9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.1% (2015-2019) → 27.3% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Greenbrier, 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+27 points69.7% → 97.1%
Inequality−0.0770.431 → 0.354

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Greenbrier, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.9 min2015-2019	28.0 min2020-2024	−1.9 min	Within the margin of error	70%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.0%2015-2019	20.6%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Broadband subscriptions	69.7%2015-2019	97.1%2020-2024	+27 points	Improved	97%
Effective property tax rate	0.67%2015-2019	0.51%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%
High school diploma or higher	93.5%2015-2019	93.4%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	3.6×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	41%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4312015-2019	0.3542020-2024	−0.077	Improved	92%
Median household income	$47,0282015-2019	$57,2142020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	36%
Poverty rate	19.1%2015-2019	10.1%2020-2024	−9 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	33.1%2015-2019	27.3%2020-2024	−5.8 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Rent-burdened households	56.8%2015-2019	42.0%2020-2024	−15 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.2%2015-2019	6.3%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	68%

“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 Greenbrier, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Greenbrier, 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, Greenbrier, Arkansas itself moved +20.2 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

6,018 residents (±19)

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

2,419 households (±174)

Greenbrier, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k12%†284
$25k–50k32%†765
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,419 households (±174)

Greenbrier, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own68%1,641
Rent32%778

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

2,909 workers (±328)

Greenbrier, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone85%2,487
Carpool7.1%†208
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 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, 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 Faulkner County, the county holding most of Greenbrier's residents.

Faulkner County has 2,990 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.00× Arkansas's), with 37,718 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,802. The Census Bureau also counts 11,019 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,990; 11,019 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 37,718
Average annual pay: $45,802; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	317	24.4	1.17×About typical	2,526	$64,833	679
Specialty trade contractors	259	19.9	1.29×More than typical	2,572	$67,385	1,030
Restaurants and other eating places	218	16.8	0.91×About typical	4,674	$19,926	53
Offices of other health practitioners	137	10.5	1.73×More than typical	677	$44,945	317
Lessors of real estate	130	10	0.81×About typical	352	$36,170	1,007
Construction of buildings	105	8.1	1.07×About typical	558	$55,487	424
Limited-service restaurants	105	8.1	1.01×About typical	2,460	$18,941	23
Religious organizations	104	8	1.44×More than typical	1,265	$27,435	—
Building equipment contractors	92	7.1	1.18×About typical	866	$51,017	209
Insurance agencies and brokerages	92	7.1	1.61×More than typical	340	$76,094	233
Offices of physicians	79	6.1	0.94×About typical	853	$96,035	112
Automotive repair and maintenance	71	5.5	1.08×About typical	473	$41,562	151

Rank places for an industry Open Faulkner County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 130,104 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 $844.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Greenbrier, Arkansas: $140 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $844.4K; +1,109% vs FY2025
Per resident: $140; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 70%; 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

Departmental Offices$844.4K100%

Top recipients

HENRYS AERIAL SERVICE INC$844.4K100%

Spending by fiscal year

30.3FY2019
96.1KFY2024
69.8KFY2025
844.4KFY2026

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$844.4K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Support activities for forestry · 1153$844.4K100%

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

Greenbrier, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Faulkner County, AR ($17M in FY2026), never added to them: 5.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Faulkner 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.

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

House

J. French HillR-AR-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.2%

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.

Faulkner County44100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR43

Other cities and towns in Faulkner 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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