City · Bradley County, Arkansas

Warren, Arkansas

Warren is a city in Bradley County, Arkansas. It has 5,353 residents. Warren, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,666 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #179 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), grocery stores (high) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), voter turnout (low) and broadband subscriptions (low).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,666 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #179 of 218 in AR
Population: 5,353 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 760.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 0573310

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.

Safety16#13,196/15,637
Economy2#15,395/15,631
Housing89#1,707/14,977
Health11#13,911/15,609
Healthcare17#12,985/15,650
Environment34#10,229/15,453
Education7#14,517/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,213/15,650
Community14#13,481/15,651
Leisure & amenities17#12,921/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Warren, Arkansas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bradley 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 · high4.1 /10k
99/100Arkansas 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBradley County value
Grocery stores · high3.0 /10k
95/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBradley County value
Public libraries · high2.0 /10k
91/100Arkansas 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesBradley County value
Property crime rate · low487 /100k
90/100Arkansas 1,645 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBradley County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.1×
90/100Arkansas 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Effective property tax rate · low0.48%
89/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Arkansas 12.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBradley County value
Voter turnout · low44.9%
1/100Arkansas 52.5%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionBradley County value
Broadband subscriptions · low79.1%
3/100Arkansas 86.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Traffic deaths · high41.1 /100k
3/100Arkansas 20.8 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBradley County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.0 /10k
3/100Arkansas 3.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBradley County value
Physical inactivity · high39.5%
3/100Arkansas 34.4%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
5,646 (2015-2019) → 5,353 (2020-2024)
−5.2%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
40.5% (2015-2019) → 18.5% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.7% (2015-2019) → 79.1% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
44.9% (2015-2019) → 56.7% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.4 /1k (2021) → 0.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−49%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
77.2% (2015-2019) → 86.9% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Warren, Arkansas improved on 2 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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

Child poverty−22 points40.5% → 18.5%
Broadband+12 points66.7% → 79.1%

Declined1

Inequality+0.0910.443 → 0.534

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Warren, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.4 min2015-2019	23.3 min2020-2024	+4.9 min	Within the margin of error	10%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.1%2015-2019	12.5%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Broadband subscriptions	66.7%2015-2019	79.1%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	40.5%2015-2019	18.5%2020-2024	−22 points	Improved	95%
Effective property tax rate	0.45%2015-2019	0.48%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	12%
High school diploma or higher	77.2%2015-2019	86.9%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	84%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4432015-2019	0.5342020-2024	+0.091	Declined	6%
Median household income	$38,5082015-2019	$36,7882020-2024	−4.5%	Within the margin of error	5%
Poverty rate	29.8%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	−7.7 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	27.0%2015-2019	34.4%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Rent-burdened households	44.9%2015-2019	56.7%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Unemployment rate	7.6%2015-2019	8.4%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.5%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	39%

“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 Warren, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Warren, 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, Warren, Arkansas itself moved −12.1 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

5,353 residents (±33)

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

1,867 households (±158)

Warren, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k36%676
$25k–50k23%†430
$50k–75k11%†198

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,867 households (±158)

Warren, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own52%971
Rent48%896

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,093 workers (±254)

Warren, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone94%1,971
Carpool2.3%†49
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 Bradley County, the county holding most of Warren's residents.

Bradley County has 234 employer establishments, 231 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Arkansas's), with 2,375 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,595. The Census Bureau also counts 660 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 234; 660 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 231; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 2,375
Average annual pay: $46,595; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	20	19.7	0.95×About typical	136	$41,279	51
Religious organizations	14	13.8	2.49×More than typical	54	$20,741	—
Truck transportation	14	13.8	2.73×More than typical	47	$45,511	44
Restaurants and other eating places	13	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	158	$16,975	10
Specialty trade contractors	10	9.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	17	$44,118	63
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	8.9	1.76×Too few to compare	28	$38,464	11
Banks and credit unions	9	8.9	2.75×Too few to compare	91	$50,495	—
Gasoline stations	9	8.9	2.74×Too few to compare	37	$33,649	—
Full-service restaurants	7	6.9	0.90×Too few to compare	38	$19,895	7
Offices of other health practitioners	7	6.9	1.14×Too few to compare	19	$48,368	11
Limited-service restaurants	6	5.9	0.74×Too few to compare	120	$16,050	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	5	4.9	1.21×Too few to compare	7	$23,857	10

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 10,142 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 Warren, 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

11.6KFY2017

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

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

See federal money in Bradley 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.

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

House

Bruce WestermanR-AR-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.4%

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.

Bradley County11100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Bradley 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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