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Hempstead County, AR

People
Population19,508B01003
Population, 2020 census20,065P1
Median age41.2B01002
Under 1825.3%B01001
65 and over18.7%B01001
Households7,479B11001
Foreign born7.8%B05002
Money
Median household income$46,787B19013
Median family income$64,504B19113
Per capita income$28,673B19301
Poverty rate20.2%B17001
Unemployment rate5.6%B23025
Civilian labor force7,763B23025
Mean commute (minutes)21.2B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher16.3%B15003
Housing
Housing units9,642B25001
Owner-occupied71.7%B25003
Renters28.3%B25003
Median home value$105,700B25077
Median gross rent$815B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic51.5%B03002
Black28.6%B03002
Hispanic or Latino15.3%B03002
Asian0.7%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.2%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 77% of Arkansas's ($60,773); poverty 20.2% against 16.0%; 0.6% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 4801.01: 2,706Census Tract 4801.02: 2,329Census Tract 4802: 1,995Census Tract 4803.01: 1,937Census Tract 4803.02: 3,029Census Tract 4804: 3,643Census Tract 4805: 3,869HopePerrytownFultonBlevinsWashingtonMcNabMcCaskillOzanPatmosOakhavenSaratogaZIP 71801: 95 nonprofits, $1,269,820ZIP 71862: 11 nonprofits, $181,533ZIP 71838: 6 nonprofits, $246,943ZIP 71825: 5 nonprofitsZIP 71855: 5 nonprofits, $39,597ZIP 71859: 4 nonprofitsZIP 71847: 4 nonprofitsPopulation (ACS 2020-2024)up to 1,9951,995 to 2,3292,329 to 3,0293,029 to 3,643over 3,643nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Hempstead County, AR

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits179$22,725,583 revenue (latest return)RAINBOW OF CHALLENGES INC ($15,581,908)
Nonprofit contractors12$37,047,935 paid by nonprofitsSMILES OF ARKANSAS DENTAL CENTER ($10,179,020)
Colleges and schools11,288 enrollmentUniversity of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (1,288)
Form 5500 plan sponsors2232 plansRAINBOW OF CHALLENGES, INC (10)
Open Payments recipients28$15,904 industry paymentsASHLEY S. WILKINS ($5,355)
Food recall firms11 recallsSouthern Bakeries, LLC (1)
Patent and trademark owners1424 patents and marksKlipsch and Associates, Inc. (5)
Federal award recipients1,075$220,953,882 federal awardsHOPE HOUSING AUTHORITY ($37,276,273)
State business registrations27GATOR GOLF, INCORPORATED

Cross-reference: 179 nonprofits for 19,508 residents is 91.8 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $22,725,583 is $1,165 per resident, 6.5% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1JUDY WATSONROC PRESIDENT/CEORAINBOW OF CHALLENGES INC$156,79120243.4x
2TERESA PORTERCFOPNC INC$103,31520242.2x
3ANNA POWELLEXECUTIVE DIRECTORHEMPSTEAD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$94,47820252.0x
4STEVE HARRISEXECUTIVE DIRECTORHEMPSTEAD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$89,12420221.9x
5Beckie MooreCEOKLIPSCH HERITAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC$60,00020221.3x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $46,787.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Colleges and schools: biggest by enrollment

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Food recall firms: biggest by recalls

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 7 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 48053,869$52,09416.1%38.4
Census Tract 48043,643$58,43825.9%38.2
Census Tract 4803.023,029$45,74622.0%43.0
Census Tract 4801.012,706$57,18021.1%31.6
Census Tract 4801.022,329$46,25012.1%45.8
Census Tract 48021,995$50,25411.7%54.8
Census Tract 4803.011,937$24,55632.1%45.9

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0