City · Cross County, Arkansas

Wynne, Arkansas

Wynne is a city in Cross County, Arkansas. It has 8,120 residents. Wynne, Arkansas has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,411 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arkansas it ranks #161 of 218 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), students per teacher (low) and pharmacies (high). It ranks worst on violent crime rate (high), average weekly wage (low) and food environment index (low).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,411 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arkansas: #161 of 218 in AR
Population: 8,120 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 902.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 0577090

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.

Safety2#15,265/15,637
Economy2#15,302/15,631
Housing89#1,621/14,977
Health4#15,023/15,609
Healthcare17#12,955/15,650
Environment4#14,852/15,453
Education24#11,950/15,649
Infrastructure34#10,363/15,650
Community23#12,101/15,651
Leisure & amenities29#11,110/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low105 min
94/100Arkansas 165 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCross County value
Students per teacher · low11.5×
90/100Arkansas 12.5×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsCross County value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
89/100Arkansas 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCross County value
Grocery stores · high2.5 /10k
87/100Arkansas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCross County value
Social associations · high14.0 /10k
87/100Arkansas 11.7 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCross County value
Job growth · high1.5%
84/100Arkansas -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCross County value

Weaknesses

Violent crime rate · high791 /100k
2/100Arkansas 532 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2022Federal Bureau of InvestigationCross County value
Average weekly wage · low$829
2/100Arkansas $1,176United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCross County value
Food environment index · low5.7
3/100Arkansas 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCross County value
Adult obesity · high46.0%
3/100Arkansas 40.6%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Child poverty rate · high36.2%
4/100Arkansas 19.6%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Physical inactivity · high38.8%
4/100Arkansas 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.

Child poverty rateWorsening
13.9% (2015-2019) → 36.2% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedImproving
2.2 /1k (2021) → 4.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+94%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.3% (2015-2019) → 91.4% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 3.3× (2020-2024)
+58%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
16.1% (2015-2019) → 24.7% (2020-2024)
+8.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
17.3% (2015-2019) → 21.8% (2020-2024)
+4.5 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, Wynne, Arkansas improved on 1 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 11 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+18 points73.3% → 91.4%

Declined3

Child poverty+22 points13.9% → 36.2%
Poverty+8.6 points16.1% → 24.7%
Price / income+1.2×2.1× → 3.3×

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Wynne, Arkansas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.1 min2015-2019	21.9 min2020-2024	+0.8 min	Within the margin of error	38%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.3%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Broadband subscriptions	73.3%2015-2019	91.4%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	87%
Child poverty rate	13.9%2015-2019	36.2%2020-2024	+22 points	Declined	4%
Effective property tax rate	0.47%2015-2019	0.65%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	3%
High school diploma or higher	86.6%2015-2019	82.7%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	16%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4992015-2019	0.4632020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$43,4422015-2019	$43,2502020-2024	−0.4%	Within the margin of error	7%
Poverty rate	16.1%2015-2019	24.7%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Declined	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	28.6%2015-2019	28.9%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Rent-burdened households	46.1%2015-2019	48.0%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Unemployment rate	8.2%2015-2019	10.3%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.1%2015-2019	11.2%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	14%

“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 Wynne, Arkansas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wynne, 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, Wynne, Arkansas itself moved −3.7 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

8,120 residents (±21)

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

3,133 households (±173)

Wynne, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Under $25k23%735
$25k–50k31%956
$50k–75k13%†401

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,133 households (±173)

Wynne, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Own59%1,863
Rent41%1,270

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

3,213 workers (±277)

Wynne, Arkansas
Arkansas share

Drive alone83%2,676
Carpool15%†466
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 Cross County, the county holding most of Wynne's residents.

Cross County has 369 employer establishments, 225 for every 10,000 residents (0.90× the US rate of 248; 0.98× Arkansas's), with 3,646 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,977. The Census Bureau also counts 1,347 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 369; 1,347 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 225; US 248 · Arkansas 229
Paid employees: 3,646
Average annual pay: $36,977; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	35	21.3	1.02×About typical	302	$48,162	102
Restaurants and other eating places	26	15.8	0.86×About typical	404	$15,817	3
Religious organizations	23	14	2.52×More than typical	100	$19,600	—
Specialty trade contractors	17	10.3	0.67×Fewer than typical	91	$50,780	94
Truck transportation	16	9.7	1.93×More than typical	31	$49,548	68
Limited-service restaurants	15	9.1	1.14×About typical	260	$15,804	—
Banks and credit unions	13	7.9	2.45×More than typical	114	$54,579	—
Offices of other health practitioners	13	7.9	1.30×More than typical	66	$38,894	22
Lessors of real estate	12	7.3	0.59×Fewer than typical	32	$13,750	118
Building equipment contractors	11	6.7	1.11×About typical	75	$51,947	24
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	6.7	1.52×More than typical	31	$29,290	17
Gasoline stations	10	6.1	1.88×More than typical	118	$18,864	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,431 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 $837 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wynne, Arkansas: $0.10 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $837; −90% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.10; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; 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

Department of Veterans Affairs$837100%

Top recipients

CROSS SNF OPERATIONS LLC$837100%

Spending by fiscal year

17.2KFY2017
8.9KFY2018
58.7KFY2019
228.9KFY2020
227KFY2021
6.5KFY2022
20.1KFY2023
-19.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$837100%

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

Wynne, Arkansas's figures are part of those of Cross County, AR ($21.5K in FY2026), never added to them: 3.9% of that total.

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

See federal money in Cross 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.

Wynne, 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.

Cross County10100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Cross 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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