PineyAR
A town of 4,458. Home to National Park College.
Is Piney a good place to live?
Piney earns a D, 75th of 123 graded towns in Arkansas, mostly because of health and incomes. Residents are less healthy than 98% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. The median household income is $51K, and 28% of residents live below the poverty line. In its favor, homes are within reach, about $134K for a typical one, or 2.4 years of the Hot Springs metro’s $57K median household income. 29% of residents live below the poverty line in Piney, above both the Arkansas town median (17%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). On history, just 10 of Arkansas’ 201 towns do worse. Piney is home to National Park College.
What makes Piney stand out
Where Piney beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
National Park College calls Piney home
How Piney grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Arkansas), ordered by how far Piney is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Hot Springs National Park and 4 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Piney. Close and well known come first.
2 mi National ParkHot Springs National Park2.5M visitors a year7 mi Theme parkMagic Springs and Crystal Falls
7 mi GardenGarvan Woodland Gardensin town MuseumMid-America Science Museum4 mi Zoo & aquariumArkansas Alligator Farm and Petting ZooPhoto credits
Hot Springs National Park: Unknown, Public domain · Garvan Woodland Gardens: Nngowen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Piney: who provides what
Piney is unincorporated, so Garland County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Piney.
Piney has homes that are cheap against local pay and trades workers with Hot Springs and other neighbors, but it has little public open land.
Piney’s grade for health is a D−
19% of Piney adults report frequent physical distress. Piney beats the Arkansas average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 16. 22% of Piney adults smoke cigarettes.
| Piney | Arkansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 17% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 25% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 19% | 14% |
| What stands out | Piney | AR |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 31.9% | 18.6% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 15.6% | 10.4% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 27.1% | 18.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Park Technology CenterLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | – | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within AR on state tests and graduation
Piney faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 84% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Piney since 2019.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Piney, expect mild winters and hot summers
Piney has mild winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. Piney’s July high is 92°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
About two in five of Piney’s working residents commute to Hot Springs
Piney has about as many jobs (2,015) as working residents, but only 132 people both live and work here. The average commute takes 15.8 minutes, against 22.5 across Arkansas.
Most working residents leave Piney for work: only 7% work in town. The average trip to work in Piney is 16 minutes. Jobs based in Piney grew to 2,015 in 2023, 287 more than in 2013.
| Piney | Arkansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 16 minutes | 21 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 7.2% | 22% | 8% |
| Median household income | $51,000 | $55,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
An age mix much like Arkansas’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Arkansas average. 19% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Piney.
| Piney | Arkansas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 22% | 25% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 19% | 20% | 29% |
| Median age | 39 years | 36.6 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±3.6 points). Across Arkansas, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Piney | AR | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.3% | 12.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.4% | 10.8% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 9.4% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 17% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.6% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.8% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.4% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.9% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 4.6% | 7.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 14.3% | 11.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.3% | 34.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.4% | 20.7% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12% | 8.2% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 11.3% | 16.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 7.7% | 9.5% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,500, single groups can be off by several points
0.2% of Piney is conserved land
Just 10 of its 4,529 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Piney itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hot Springs National Park | — | 17 |
| 2. Vulcan Pickleball Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Piney sells for about $355K at the median
At 2.4 years of the Hot Springs metro’s $57K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 82% of Arkansas towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Piney
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Piney
About 2 of every 100 Piney residents are enrolled in college, against 5 across Arkansas.
Piney has grown 12% from 2010 to 2020
4,699 counted in 2010 and 5,238 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
About Piney
CDP in Arkansas, United States
Piney is a census-designated place (CDP) in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,699 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 7.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 420 ft
- Area code
- 501
Piney’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Piney.
| Town | AR rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piney | #75 | D | B | — | B | D− |
| Hot Springs | #90 | D | B− | D | C+ | D |
| Rockwell | #73 | C− | C | — | B | C |
Piney and Rockwell report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Piney with a neighbor →
Questions about Piney
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Piney, AR a good place to live?
Piney grades D overall, better than 15% of U.S. towns and #75 of 123 in Arkansas. It grades D− for health and B for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Piney, AR expensive?
The typical home is worth about $134,000, 40% below the Arkansas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.