Real median household income in Arkansas was $41,262 in 2014, rising by 0.2 percent compared with 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau, however, does not consider the rise statistically significant.
Median household income in the United States as a whole in 2014 was $53,657.
The bureau’s American Community Survey showed that real median household income grew in 16 states between 2013 and 2014 and fell in one state, Kentucky. Median household incomes ranged from $73,971 in Maryland to $39,680 in Mississippi.
The Economic Policy Institute, in analyzing the ACS data, noted that “the gradual improvement in state economies from 2013 to 2014 brought little change in overall economic conditions for households in most states.”
“By and large, what little improvement in household incomes occurred tended to be in states where incomes were already relatively high or where the oil and gas boom has fueled growth,” said the institute, based in Washington.