Scores by category

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

Safety9#14,147/15,637
Economy4#14,949/15,631
Housing87#1,887/14,977
Health7#14,585/15,609
Healthcare4#15,073/15,650
Environment28#11,149/15,453
Education64#5,699/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,901/15,650
Community6#14,712/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#15,051/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Mammoth Spring, Arkansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Fulton 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 · low6.9×
100/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsFulton County value
Job growth · high4.5%
97/100Arkansas -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataFulton County value
Pharmacies · high3.2 /10k
97/100Arkansas 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
Public libraries · high2.4 /10k
93/100Arkansas 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesFulton County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.41%
93/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Reading scores · high3.37
93/100Arkansas 2.89United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFulton County value

Weaknesses

Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Arkansas 3.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
Average weekly wage · low$807
1/100Arkansas $1,176United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFulton County value
Traffic deaths · high52.0 /100k
1/100Arkansas 20.8 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataFulton County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low25.6%
2/100Arkansas 63.4%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFulton County value
Broadband subscriptions · low78.1%
2/100Arkansas 86.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Median household income · low$32,863
2/100Arkansas $62,146United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,015 (2015-2019) → 1,226 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
47.6% (2015-2019) → 78.1% (2020-2024)
+30 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
21.2% (2015-2019) → 34.3% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+59%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Average commute timeWorsening
20.5 min (2015-2019) → 24.3 min (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
11.3% (2015-2019) → 14.9% (2020-2024)
+3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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+30 points47.6% → 78.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.3%2015-2019	14.9%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Broadband subscriptions	47.6%2015-2019	78.1%2020-2024	+30 points	Improved	98%
Child poverty rate	26.9%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Effective property tax rate	0.50%2015-2019	0.41%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	87.2%2015-2019	85.6%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.2×	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4382015-2019	0.4252020-2024	−0.013	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$35,5562015-2019	$32,8632020-2024	−7.6%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	21.2%2015-2019	34.3%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Rent as share of income	26.1%2015-2019	26.3%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%

“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 Mammoth Spring, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Mammoth Spring, 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, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas itself moved −3.7 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,226 residents (±275)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (−5.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,226 residents (±275)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

White96%1,173
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino0.8%†10

Education

799 residents (±182)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

No high school diploma14%†115
High school or GED38%†301
Some college26%

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

393 households (±84)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k41%†162
$25k–50k33%†129
$50k–75k15%†60
$75k–100k4.1%†16
$100k–150k3.1%†12
$150k–200k3.3%†13
$200k or more0.3%†1

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

393 households (±84)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own80%315
Rent20%†78

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

53 households (±29)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $75068%†36
$750–1,00023%†12
$1,000–1,5007.5%†

Home values

315 homes (±77)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $150k71%†224
$150k–250k21%†66
$250k–400k3.2%†10

Age of homes

474 homes (±90)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

2010 or later3.2%†15
2000–20091.9%†9
1980–199920%†93

Size of homes

474 homes (±90)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Studio0.6%†3
1 bedroom7.4%†35
2 bedrooms23%†110

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

384 workers (±112)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone54%†209
Carpool23%†90
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.0%†4
Bike0.0%0
Work from home13%†49
Other8.3%†32

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

335 workers (±113)

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under 15 min56%†189
15–29 min3.0%†10
30–44 min20%†68

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Fulton County, the county holding most of Mammoth Spring's residents.

Fulton County has 165 employer establishments, 133 for every 10,000 residents (0.53× the US rate of 248; 0.58× Arkansas's), with 1,388 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,771. The Census Bureau also counts 887 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 165; 887 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 133; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 1,388
Average annual pay: $37,771; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	17	13.7	0.66×Fewer than typical	246	$42,890	54
Specialty trade contractors	10	8	0.52×Fewer than typical	22	$36,273	111
Religious organizations	9	7.2	1.31×Too few to compare	24	$18,500	—
Restaurants and other eating places	8	6.4	0.35×Too few to compare	93	$14,022	9
Offices of other health practitioners	7	5.6	0.93×Too few to compare	17	$46,471	17
Banks and credit unions	6	4.8	1.49×Too few to compare	51	$63,882	—
Health and personal care stores	6	4.8	1.82×Too few to compare	46	$40,087	4
Individual and family services	6	4.8	1.72×Too few to compare	94	$21,170	6
Child day care services	5	4	1.65×Too few to compare	43	$20,442	10
Full-service restaurants	5	4	0.52×Too few to compare	45	$16,733	7
Pharmacies and drug stores	5	4	3.24×Too few to compare	33	$39,879	—
Truck transportation	5	4	0.80×Too few to compare	7	$25,571	44

Rank places for an industry Open Fulton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,431 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 $530 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas: $0.43 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $530
Per resident: $0.43; 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

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$530100%

Top recipients

CRAWFORD ELECTRIC INC$530100%

Spending by fiscal year

231.6FY2017
7KFY2018
0FY2019
5KFY2021
957.4FY2022
175.8FY2023
156.4FY2024
530.3FY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Building equipment contractors · 2382$530100%

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 Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, so they do not add up across cities.

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Fulton County, AR ($53K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Fulton 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.

Mammoth Spring, 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.

Fulton County3100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Fulton 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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