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Arkansas City city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Arkansas City city is a Census city of 11,884 people across 9.32 square miles of land, in Cowley County. Median household income is $49,629, 56.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.1 m.
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Arkansas City
What Arkansas City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area9.32 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,275
- County holding the largest share of its areaCowley 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.
Arkansas City
How many people live in Arkansas City
- Population11,884
- Median age37.1
- Population under 182,820
- Share under 1823.7 percent
- Population 65 and over1,935
- Share 65 and over16.3 percent
- Households4,799
- Family households2,756
- Share of households that are families57.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arkansas City
Income and work in Arkansas City
- Median household income$49,629
- Per capita income$27,382
- Civilian labor force5,378
- Employed5,230
- Unemployed148 plus or minus 55
- Unemployment rate2.8 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Adults 25 and over7,660
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent plus or minus 2.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Arkansas City
- Housing units5,510
- Occupied units4,799
- Vacant units711 plus or minus 224
- Vacancy rate12.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Owner occupied2,712
- Renter occupied2,087
- Ownership rate56.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$86,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$781
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.9 percent
- Single family units3,981
- Share single family72.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,335 plus or minus 320
- Share in buildings of two or more24.2 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes194 plus or minus 121
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Arkansas City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,947
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,585
- Share commuting under 15 minutes52.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more873 plus or minus 216
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.6 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Drove alone76.2 percent
- Carpooled18.2 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home3.0 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arkansas City
SBA loans in Arkansas City (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$5,115,000
- Average approval$1,705,000
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,945,000
- Largest approval$4,945,000
- Jobs supported32
- Jobs per approval10.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises33.3 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- 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.
Cowley County, not Arkansas City
Cowley County context, not Arkansas City figures
These are Cowley County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Arkansas City measurements.
- Establishments in Cowley County719
- Employment at those establishments, Cowley County10,889
- Covered employment, Cowley County13,041
- Average annual pay, Cowley County$49,217
- Average weekly wage, Cowley County$946
- Housing units permitted, Cowley County41
- Of those, single family, Cowley County35
- County product, 2024, Cowley County$1,697,089,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cowley County-0.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cowley County$44,703
Every figure in this section is published for Cowley County as a whole and is not a measurement of Arkansas City. 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
Arkansas City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Arkansas City, Kansas?
11,884, in 4,799 households. Arkansas City city covers 9.32 square miles of land, which is 1,275 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Arkansas City in?
Cowley 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 Arkansas City?
$49,629. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $86,800. Median gross rent is $781 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Arkansas City businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $5.1 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Arkansas City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Arkansas City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Arkansas City. 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 Arkansas City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cowley 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 Arkansas City.
Is zoning published for Arkansas City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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