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Rison city, Arkansas: commercial real estate data.
Rison city is a Census city of 1,019 people across 3.28 square miles of land, in Cleveland County. Median household income is $35,855, 49.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 13 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $12.5 m.
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Rison
What Rison is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.28 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land311 plus or minus 70
- County holding the largest share of its areaCleveland County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rison
How many people live in Rison
- Population1,019 plus or minus 230
- Median age37.5 plus or minus 11.3
- Population under 18276 plus or minus 117
- Share under 1827.1 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over223 plus or minus 66
- Share 65 and over21.9 percent
- Households416 plus or minus 113
- Family households225 plus or minus 79
- Share of households that are families54.1 percent plus or minus 12.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rison
Income and work in Rison
- Median household income$35,855 plus or minus $15,655
- Per capita income$19,337 plus or minus $4,364
- Civilian labor force283 plus or minus 88
- Employed276 plus or minus 87
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate2.5 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over712 plus or minus 174
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rison
Housing in Rison
- Housing units506 plus or minus 118
- Occupied units416 plus or minus 113
- Vacant units90 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate17.8 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Owner occupied205 plus or minus 71
- Renter occupied211 plus or minus 103
- Ownership rate49.3 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$115,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$505
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Single family units373 plus or minus 107
- Share single family73.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more80 plus or minus 73
- Share in buildings of two or more15.8 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Mobile homes53 plus or minus 34
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rison
How Rison gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute270 plus or minus 84
- Commuting under 15 minutes144 plus or minus 84
- Share commuting under 15 minutes53.3 percent plus or minus 26.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more110 plus or minus 53
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.7 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Drove alone74.6 percent plus or minus 16.9
- Carpooled17.4 percent plus or minus 21.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Worked from home2.2 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rison
SBA loans in Rison (7(a))
- Approvals13
- Gross approval$12,536,000
- Average approval$964,308
- Median approval$552,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,428,000
- Largest approval$2,805,000
- Jobs supported72
- Jobs per approval5.5
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term179 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more7.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Cleveland County, not Rison
Cleveland County context, not Rison figures
These are Cleveland County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rison measurements.
- Establishments in Cleveland County77
- Employment at those establishments, Cleveland County626
- Covered employment, Cleveland County1,045
- Average annual pay, Cleveland County$44,678
- Average weekly wage, Cleveland County$859
- Housing units permitted, Cleveland County0
- Of those, single family, Cleveland County0
- County product, 2024, Cleveland County$235,337,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cleveland County24.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cleveland County$40,721
Every figure in this section is published for Cleveland County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rison. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Rison questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rison, Arkansas?
1,019, in 416 households. Rison city covers 3.28 square miles of land, which is 311 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rison in?
Cleveland County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Rison?
$35,855. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $115,500. Median gross rent is $505 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Rison businesses?
13 7(a) approvals totalling $12.5 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $552,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Rison, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Rison borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Rison. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Rison figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cleveland County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Rison.
Is zoning published for Rison?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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