City · Lawrence County, Arkansas

Hoxie, Arkansas

Hoxie is a city in Lawrence County, Arkansas. It has 2,618 residents. Hoxie, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,224 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #210 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), time spent in the emergency room (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and frequent mental distress (high).

3Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,224 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #210 of 218 in AR
Population: 2,618 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 392.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 0533580

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.

Safety12#13,720/15,637
Economy6#14,758/15,631
Housing90#1,531/14,977
Health3#15,180/15,609
Healthcare6#14,667/15,650
Environment17#12,894/15,453
Education8#14,329/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,108/15,650
Community4#15,020/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,378/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Students per teacher · low9.4×
99/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsLawrence County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low90 min
98/100Arkansas 165 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLawrence County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.47%
90/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Public libraries · high1.9 /10k
90/100Arkansas 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLawrence County value
Rent-burdened households · low44.2%
87/100Arkansas 44.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Arkansas 1United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Arkansas 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAALawrence County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low4.1%
1/100Arkansas 25.7%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Frequent mental distress · high23.9%
1/100Arkansas 20.7%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Voter turnout · low46.0%
2/100Arkansas 52.5%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionLawrence County value
Traffic deaths · high50.6 /100k
2/100Arkansas 20.8 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataLawrence County value
Food environment index · low5.3
2/100Arkansas 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
67.9% (2015-2019) → 84.2% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
3.9% (2015-2019) → 17.9% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
80.8% (2015-2019) → 75.0% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
13.5% (2015-2019) → 7.8% (2020-2024)
−5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
9.2% (2015-2019) → 4.1% (2020-2024)
−5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.419 (2015-2019) → 0.487 (2020-2024)
+16%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Hoxie, Arkansas improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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+16 points67.9% → 84.2%

Declined2

Uninsured+14 points3.9% → 17.9%
Bachelor's+−5.1 points9.2% → 4.1%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Hoxie, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.9 min2015-2019	25.9 min2020-2024	+2.0 min	Within the margin of error	27%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.2%2015-2019	4.1%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Declined	7%
Broadband subscriptions	67.9%2015-2019	84.2%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
High school diploma or higher	80.8%2015-2019	75.0%2020-2024	−5.8 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	68%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4192015-2019	0.4872020-2024	+0.068	Within the margin of error	10%
Median household income	$30,4382015-2019	$35,2682020-2024	+16%	Within the margin of error	25%
Poverty rate	16.6%2015-2019	19.0%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.1%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Rent-burdened households	41.9%2015-2019	44.2%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.9%2015-2019	17.9%2020-2024	+14 points	Declined	1%

“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 Hoxie, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hoxie, 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, Hoxie, Arkansas itself moved −8.2 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,618 residents (±20)

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

1,237 households (±113)

Hoxie, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k36%†448
$25k–50k30%†371
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,237 households (±113)

Hoxie, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own54%665
Rent46%572

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

1,054 workers (±127)

Hoxie, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone88%926
Carpool5.7%†60
Public transit0.0%0

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 Lawrence County, the county holding most of Hoxie's residents.

Lawrence County has 284 employer establishments, 176 for every 10,000 residents (0.71× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Arkansas's), with 3,289 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,046. The Census Bureau also counts 1,324 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 284; 1,324 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 176; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 3,289
Average annual pay: $39,046; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	24	14.8	0.81×About typical	304	$17,516	4
Ambulatory health care services	16	9.9	0.47×Fewer than typical	181	$56,575	128
Specialty trade contractors	16	9.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	158	$87,823	139
Truck transportation	15	9.3	1.83×More than typical	65	$52,231	119
Religious organizations	13	8	1.45×More than typical	52	$19,538	—
Full-service restaurants	11	6.8	0.89×About typical	85	$19,059	—
Gasoline stations	11	6.8	2.10×More than typical	68	$31,529	—
General merchandise stores	10	6.2	3.50×More than typical	168	$29,292	4
Limited-service restaurants	10	6.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	178	$16,573	—
Lessors of real estate	9	5.6	0.45×Too few to compare	17	$16,882	87
Automotive repair and maintenance	8	4.9	0.98×Too few to compare	22	$57,182	43
Banks and credit unions	8	4.9	1.53×Too few to compare	63	$49,381	—

Rank places for an industry Open Lawrence County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,181 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hoxie, Arkansas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1.3KFY2017
3KFY2018
773.6FY2019
586.6FY2020
762.2FY2021
2.4KFY2022
961.6FY2023
0FY2024

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Lawrence 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.

Hoxie, 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.

Lawrence County8100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Lawrence 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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