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Ash Flat city, Arkansas: commercial real estate data.
Ash Flat city is a Census city of 1,217 people across 6.37 square miles of land, lying across Sharp County and Fulton County. Median household income is $41,667, 54.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $765,200.
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Ash Flat
What Ash Flat is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.37 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land191 plus or minus 43
- County holding the largest share of its areaSharp County, 86.7 percent
- Counties this place lies inSharp County 86.7 percent, Fulton County 13.3 percent
Ash Flat city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ash Flat
How many people live in Ash Flat
- Population1,217 plus or minus 276
- Median age54.6
- Population under 18182 plus or minus 75
- Share under 1815.0 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over423 plus or minus 116
- Share 65 and over34.8 percent
- Households418 plus or minus 99
- Family households278 plus or minus 82
- Share of households that are families66.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ash Flat
Income and work in Ash Flat
- Median household income$41,667 plus or minus $9,278
- Per capita income$20,293
- Civilian labor force412 plus or minus 148
- Employed393 plus or minus 146
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate4.6 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over1,008 plus or minus 207
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.4 percent plus or minus 23.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.4 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.2 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ash Flat
Housing in Ash Flat
- Housing units466 plus or minus 101
- Occupied units418 plus or minus 99
- Vacant units48 plus or minus 32
- Vacancy rate10.3 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Owner occupied228 plus or minus 57
- Renter occupied190 plus or minus 77
- Ownership rate54.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$94,000 plus or minus $22,964
- Median gross rent, monthly$663 plus or minus $452
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.1 percent plus or minus 13.7
- Single family units352 plus or minus 88
- Share single family75.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more93 plus or minus 38
- Share in buildings of two or more20.0 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Mobile homes21 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ash Flat
How Ash Flat gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute356 plus or minus 147
- Commuting under 15 minutes234 plus or minus 103
- Share commuting under 15 minutes65.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more65 plus or minus 37
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.3 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Drove alone79.4 percent
- Carpooled5.6 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Public transport3.5 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.8 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ash Flat
SBA loans in Ash Flat (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$765,200
- Average approval$255,067
- Median approval$323,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$341,800
- Largest approval$341,800
- Jobs supported11
- Jobs per approval3.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more66.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Sharp County, not Ash Flat
Sharp County context, not Ash Flat figures
These are Sharp County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Ash Flat measurements.
- Establishments in Sharp County342
- Employment at those establishments, Sharp County2,833
- Covered employment, Sharp County3,954
- Average annual pay, Sharp County$38,491
- Average weekly wage, Sharp County$740
- Housing units permitted, Sharp County26
- Of those, single family, Sharp County26
- County product, 2024, Sharp County$579,835,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sharp County15.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sharp County$43,524
Every figure in this section is published for Sharp County as a whole and is not a measurement of Ash Flat. 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
Ash Flat questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ash Flat, Arkansas?
1,217, in 418 households. Ash Flat city covers 6.37 square miles of land, which is 191 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ash Flat in?
Ash Flat lies in more than one. By area it is 86.7 percent in Sharp County, 13.3 percent in Fulton County. This page sits under Sharp County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Ash Flat?
$41,667. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $94,000. Median gross rent is $663 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Ash Flat businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $765,200, across 2 lenders, median approval $323,400. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Ash Flat, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Ash Flat borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Ash Flat. only 0 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 Ash Flat figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sharp 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 Ash Flat.
Is zoning published for Ash Flat?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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