City · Conway County, Arkansas

Plumerville, Arkansas

Plumerville is a city in Conway County, Arkansas. It has 1,128 residents. Plumerville, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,811 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #121 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), unemployment rate (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), food environment index (low) and gyms and fitness centers (low).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,811 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #121 of 218 in AR
Population: 1,128 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,096.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 0556480

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.

Safety34#10,371/15,637
Economy26#11,610/15,631
Housing88#1,872/14,977
Health11#13,935/15,609
Healthcare17#13,043/15,650
Environment17#12,791/15,453
Education34#10,333/15,649
Infrastructure16#13,140/15,650
Community8#14,359/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#15,030/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Plumerville, Arkansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Conway 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 · low8.7×
100/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsConway County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Arkansas 4.1%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Effective property tax rate · low0.29%
97/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Time spent in the emergency room · low98 min
97/100Arkansas 165 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesConway County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Arkansas 7.0 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataConway County value
Job growth · high2.8%
93/100Arkansas -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataConway County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Arkansas 12.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationConway County value
Food environment index · low6.0
4/100Arkansas 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteConway County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Arkansas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsConway County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.4 /10k
5/100Arkansas 3.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsConway County value
Median household income · low$42,552
7/100Arkansas $62,146United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Broadband subscriptions · low81.5%
8/100Arkansas 86.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Trends

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

PopulationRising
857 (2015-2019) → 1,128 (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
60.8% (2015-2019) → 81.5% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.9× (2020-2024)
+58%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.8% (2015-2019) → 41.9% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
13.3% (2015-2019) → 21.6% (2020-2024)
+8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
10.6% (2015-2019) → 16.6% (2020-2024)
+6 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, Plumerville, Arkansas improved on 2 of 11 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.

Improved2

Inequality−0.1360.540 → 0.404
Broadband+21 points60.8% → 81.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Plumerville, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.1 min2015-2019	17.3 min2020-2024	−5.8 min	Within the margin of error	93%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.0%2015-2019	19.9%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Broadband subscriptions	60.8%2015-2019	81.5%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	91%
High school diploma or higher	88.8%2015-2019	88.0%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	20%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5402015-2019	0.4042020-2024	−0.136	Improved	98%
Median household income	$38,0772015-2019	$42,5522020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%
Poverty rate	13.3%2015-2019	21.6%2020-2024	+8.3 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	22.5%2015-2019	28.3%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.6%2015-2019	16.6%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	8%

“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 Plumerville, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Plumerville, 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, Plumerville, Arkansas itself moved +3.3 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

1,128 residents (±321)

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

383 households (±99)

Plumerville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k28%†107
$25k–50k32%†121
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

383 households (±99)

Plumerville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own68%261
Rent32%†122

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−12.4 points).

† 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

475 workers (±161)

Plumerville, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone77%†366
Carpool19%†89
Public transit

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 Conway County, the county holding most of Plumerville's residents.

Conway County has 417 employer establishments, 198 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.86× Arkansas's), with 4,822 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,540. The Census Bureau also counts 1,566 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 417; 1,566 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 198; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 4,822
Average annual pay: $48,540; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	41	19.4	1.26×More than typical	480	$64,552	138
Ambulatory health care services	36	17.1	0.82×About typical	330	$52,388	91
Religious organizations	24	11.4	2.05×More than typical	109	$19,991	—
Offices of other health practitioners	23	10.9	1.80×More than typical	113	$32,832	48
Restaurants and other eating places	23	10.9	0.59×Fewer than typical	387	$17,160	13
Building equipment contractors	18	8.5	1.42×More than typical	276	$61,185	28
Gasoline stations	16	7.6	2.34×More than typical	130	$25,492	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	14	6.6	1.32×More than typical	62	$41,823	36
Construction of buildings	11	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	33	$33,515	58
General merchandise stores	11	5.2	2.95×More than typical	291	$30,010	8
Lessors of real estate	11	5.2	0.42×Fewer than typical	31	$28,871	92
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	11	5.2	1.58×More than typical	55	$44,709	14

Rank places for an industry Open Conway County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 21,087 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Conway 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.

Plumerville, 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.

Conway County15100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Conway 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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