Micro area · Arkansas

Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area

Pine Bluff, AR is a micropolitan area of 2 counties in Arkansas, home to 70,211 residents. Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #897 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Arkansas it ranks #17 of 19. It ranks best on cost of buying a home today (low), home price to income ratio (low) and uninsured residents (under 65) (low). It ranks worst on violent crime rate (high), restaurants and bars (low) and property crime rate (high).

3Very low
Quality-of-life score
#897 of 925 metro and micro areas
Arkansas
#17 of 19 in AR
Population
70,211 (2025)
Land area
1,470 mi²
Density
47.8 /mi²
CBSA code
38220

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 64 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety1#919/924
  • Economy3#900/925
  • Housing79#192/925
  • Health8#847/925
  • Healthcare—
  • Environment13#796/917
  • Education20#738/925
  • Infrastructure15#791/925
  • Community8#849/925
  • Leisure & amenities3#901/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pine Bluff, AR micropolitan area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Pine Bluff, AR

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Jefferson CountyCentral county1062,987
  2. Cleveland CountyOutlying county187,224

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Pine BluffPrincipal city39,743

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Pine Bluff39,743
  2. White Hall5,512
  3. Redfield1,734
  4. Rison1,019
  5. Sulphur Springs564
  6. Altheimer517
  7. Kingsland406
  8. Wabbaseka360
  9. Rye223
  10. Humphrey220
  11. Woodlawn197
  12. New Edinburg182
  13. Staves155
  14. Tucker73
  15. Sherrill41

Other metro and micro areas in Arkansas

Areas based in Arkansas, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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