Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

Area Profile

16,327 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Hot Springs Village, in Garland County.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 43% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 34% of 4,199 cities measured64
SchoolsTop 34% of 4,162 cities measured61
GrowthTop 7% of 4,224 cities measured78
Housing affordabilityTop 44% of 4,218 cities measured69
Climate2,690th of 4,225 cities measured65
Physical resilience3,115th of 4,226 cities measured33
Access3,610th of 4,226 cities measured74
Economic stability2,919th of 4,226 cities measured47
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.4% and median household income $75,370, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Garland County, AR, which contains Hot Springs Village, rather than for Hot Springs Village alone.

In the public schools here, 47% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 9.4 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 29% of renter income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.5 times what its owners earn.

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At a glance

Population
16,327
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$75,370
Top 38% nationally
Density
283/sq mi
57.6 sq mi of land
Median age
69.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Arkansas
Metro area
Nearest major airport
LIT
43 mi · Bill and Hillary Clinton Ntl/Adams Fld
Median home value
$272,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Garland County, AR, which contains Hot Springs Village, is 4.4% — higher than in all but 47% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Garland County, AR, which contains Hot Springs Village, grew 0.3% over the past year, to 43,625 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 76% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsGarland County, AR’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$61,96231st percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftGarland County, AR’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$57,61620th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,0082024 ACS 5-Year$75,370Top 38%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,9652024 ACS 5-Year$48,061Top 19%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.5%Top 36%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year30.4 minBottom 32%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year34.7%Top 24%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year75.2%43rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentGarland County, AR’s figureJuly 202643,625Bottom 44%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Garland County, AR’s figureJuly 2026+2.1%Top 19%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Garland County, AR’s figureJuly 2026+0.3%Top 30%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceGarland County, AR’s figureJuly 202645,65144th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year65.7%Bottom 19%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageHot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$48,190Bottom 1%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageHot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$36,540Bottom 1%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Garland County, AR’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 50%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateGarland County, AR’s figureJuly 20264.4%Bottom 47%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year17.6%82nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202475k63k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $75,370 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Hot Springs, AR

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons1,620$27,890
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,260$23,350
Registered Nurses1,160$78,590
Cashiers1,120$27,840
General and Operations Managers1,080$62,810
Waiters and Waitresses1,030$23,550

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Garland County, AR, which contains this city.

47% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 47% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 9.4 students for every full-time teacher across 3 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
9.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
47.5%
Bottom 47% in Arkansas
Reading proficiency
46.5%
Top 42% in Arkansas
All 3 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Jessieville Elementary SchoolJESSIEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT35416.162%47%
Jessieville High SchoolJESSIEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT2555.232%42%
Jessieville Middle SchoolJESSIEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT18214.041%52%

98.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Arkansas’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 14% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 86.1, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Hot Springs, AR Metro Area is up 40% over five years, but down 1.3% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,367 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.50% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,090, below the $1,209 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,090 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $43,600 a year, about 58% of the median household income here of $75,370.

The typical renter household here spends 29% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,209 a month.

A median home at $272,000 costs 3.5 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $76,907, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
86.1

Prices here run about 14% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Hot Springs, AR Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
29.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,090
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,209
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$272,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Hot Springs Village’s median household income of $75,370, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Hot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure202386.1Top 1%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Hot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−1.3%2nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Hot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+39.9%41st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Hot Springs, AR Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+86.8%39th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.5Bottom 24%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±10%2024 ACS 5-Year87.6%74th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6682024 ACS 5-Year9,61994th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$834Top 10%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,393Top 13%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,090Top 13%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1512024 ACS 5-Year$1,209Bottom 31%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,7282024 ACS 5-Year$272,00068th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1202024 ACS 5-Year$1,36737th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$5,3602024 ACS 5-Year$76,907Bottom 47%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.05%2024 ACS 5-Year0.50%11th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±13%2024 ACS 5-Year29.0%Bottom 46%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2382024 ACS 5-Year73998th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year7.7%85th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.2%40th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2782024 ACS 5-Year1,24396th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

78/ 100
Top 7% of 4,224 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

71% of the 315 units permitted over the past twelve months are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses. The multifamily share is published for Garland County, AR, which contains Hot Springs Village, rather than for Hot Springs Village alone.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Garland County, which contains Hot Springs Village, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $61,962, above the $57,616 of households that moved out.

At 3.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Garland County, AR, which contains Hot Springs Village, rather than for Hot Springs Village alone.

Units permitted
315
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.1
Top 43% nationally
Year over year
+209%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
71.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
0.0%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
49%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$61,962
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$57,616
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Hot Spring County, AR 426 people · 9.6% of arrivals
  2. Saline County, AR 416 people · 9.4% of arrivals
  3. Pulaski County, AR 269 people · 6.1% of arrivals
  4. Clark County, AR 99 people · 2.2% of arrivals
  5. Faulkner County, AR 83 people · 1.9% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Saline County, AR 662 people · 15% of departures
  2. Hot Spring County, AR 449 people · 10% of departures
  3. Pulaski County, AR 317 people · 7.2% of departures
  4. Clark County, AR 139 people · 3.2% of departures
  5. Washington County, AR 121 people · 2.7% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Garland County, AR. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Hot Springs Village, AR is not one. This is the figure for Garland County, AR, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 32°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 58.0 inches, including 1.1 inches of snow.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HOT SPRINGS 1 NNE, 11.0 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND6.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals58.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals1.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals32°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals41°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

33 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and earthquake, with inland flooding alone responsible for 48% of it.

Ice stormHigh
TornadoElevated
HailElevated
EarthquakeElevated
LightningModerate
Winter weatherModerate
LandslideModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, strong wind, wildfire, hurricane, drought, coastal flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
119
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
119
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Hot Springs Village's police department reported 119 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 119.

Garland County has a modeled homicide rate of about 6.0 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 10.0 per 100,000 residents in Garland County.

Homicide
6.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.0
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
10.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
20.0
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Hot Springs Village’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Hot Springs Village (Garland County) rather than Hot Springs Village itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Bill and Hillary Clinton Ntl/Adams Fld at 43 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year90.6%Top 46%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle43 miBottom 17%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year5.0%Top 36%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Bill and Hillary Clinton Ntl/Adams FldLIT43 mi8,273 ft
Fort Smith RgnlFSM92 mi9,318 ft
Northwest Arkansas NtlXNA135 mi8,801 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Hot Springs, AR

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Hot SpringsGarland County37,92056Hot Springs vs Hot Springs Village

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Hot Springs Village

3 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Hot Springs Village with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Hot Springs Village closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
7190918,449$75,433$265,800—
720871,732$46,346$158,80058
719491,160$50,750$158,800—