Scores by category

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

Safety1#15,423/15,637
Economy43#8,876/15,631
Housing94#883/14,977
Health5#14,851/15,609
Healthcare14#13,419/15,650
Environment5#14,666/15,453
Education31#10,726/15,649
Infrastructure32#10,586/15,650
Community18#12,897/15,651
Leisure & amenities43#8,903/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Home price to income ratio · low1.9×
94/100Arkansas 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Students per teacher · low11.4×
90/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsMississippi County value
Public libraries · high1.6 /10k
87/100Arkansas 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMississippi County value
Rent-burdened households · low45.3%
87/100Arkansas 44.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Effective property tax rate · low0.51%
86/100Arkansas 0.56%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Grocery stores · high2.4 /10k
86/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMississippi County value

Weaknesses

Voter turnout · low37.9%
0/100Arkansas 52.5%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMississippi County value
Life expectancy · low69.6 yrs
2/100Arkansas 74.0 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMississippi County value
Violent crime rate · high752 /100k
2/100Arkansas 532 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureMississippi County value
Premature death · high16,258 /100k
3/100Arkansas 11,156 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMississippi County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100Arkansas 12.9United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMississippi County value
Firearm deaths · high28.5 /100k
3/100Arkansas 18.5 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMississippi County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
22.2% (2015-2019) → 45.3% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
82.5% (2015-2019) → 96.3% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
82.0% (2015-2019) → 92.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Average commute timeWorsening
15.8 min (2015-2019) → 23.7 min (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Median household incomeImproving
$61,875 (2015-2019) → $78,646 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
18.5% (2015-2019) → 23.7% (2020-2024)
+5.2 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, Wilson, 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

Household income+27%$61,875 → $78,646

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Wilson, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.8 min2015-2019	23.7 min2020-2024	+7.9 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.1%2015-2019	26.7%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Broadband subscriptions	82.0%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	62%
High school diploma or higher	82.5%2015-2019	96.3%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.8×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	57%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3462015-2019	0.4112020-2024	+0.066	Within the margin of error	11%
Median household income	$61,8752015-2019	$78,6462020-2024	+27%	Improved	49%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	18.5%2015-2019	23.7%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.1%2015-2019	5.3%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Within the margin of error	86%

“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 Wilson, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wilson, 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, Wilson, Arkansas itself moved −2.6 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

1,023 residents (±223)

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 (+10.1 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

1,023 residents (±223)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

White87%886
Black12%†120
Hispanic or Latino0.8%†8

Education

622 residents (±116)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

No high school diploma3.7%†23
High school or GED36%†227
Some college27%†

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

412 households (±97)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k5.8%†24
$25k–50k19%†78
$50k–75k17%†68
$75k–100k25%†102
$100k–150k21%†86
$150k–200k8.7%†36
$200k or more4.4%†18

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−13.1 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 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

412 households (±97)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own73%299
Rent27%†113

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

106 households (±61)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $75035%†37
$750–1,00015%†16
$1,000–1,50039%†41

Home values

299 homes (±86)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $150k52%†155
$150k–250k41%†124
$250k–400k5.4%†16

Age of homes

502 homes (±116)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

2010 or later7.6%†38
2000–20099.0%†45
1980–199932%†161

Size of homes

502 homes (±116)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom2.0%†10
2 bedrooms15%†75

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

470 workers (±117)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone88%414
Carpool6.6%†31
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.3%†6
Bike0.0%0
Work from home4.0%†19
Other0.0%0

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

451 workers (±117)

Wilson, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under 15 min35%†159
15–29 min38%†170
30–44 min15%†68

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

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 Blytheville, 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 Mississippi County, the county holding most of Wilson's residents.

Mississippi County has 737 employer establishments, 191 for every 10,000 residents (0.77× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Arkansas's), with 15,369 paid employees at an average annual pay of $73,944. The Census Bureau also counts 3,254 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 737; 3,254 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 191; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 15,369
Average annual pay: $73,944; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	67	17.3	0.94×About typical	839	$17,824	21
Ambulatory health care services	51	13.2	0.63×Fewer than typical	504	$59,458	438
Limited-service restaurants	32	8.3	1.03×About typical	563	$17,307	7
Religious organizations	32	8.3	1.49×More than typical	111	$18,523	—
Specialty trade contractors	26	6.7	0.43×Fewer than typical	872	$91,164	142
Child day care services	24	6.2	2.55×More than typical	279	$20,581	120
Full-service restaurants	22	5.7	0.74×Fewer than typical	220	$19,527	6
Banks and credit unions	21	5.4	1.68×More than typical	145	$53,703	—
Gasoline stations	19	4.9	1.52×More than typical	196	$26,270	6
Lessors of real estate	19	4.9	0.40×Fewer than typical	103	$23,398	209
Traveler accommodation	19	4.9	2.72×More than typical	174	$20,897	4
Building equipment contractors	18	4.7	0.77×Fewer than typical	718	$93,545	28

Rank places for an industry Open Mississippi County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 38,638 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 Wilson, 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

6.3KFY2024
-41.2FY2025

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

Wilson, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Mississippi County, AR ($788.5K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Mississippi 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.

Wilson, 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.

Mississippi County11100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Blytheville, AR2

Other cities and towns in Mississippi 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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