These Are The 10 Whitest Cities In Arkansas For 2018

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You’re at your local Whole Foods shopping for kale chips and asparagus water, trying to work out if you’ll have time to stop at the Pottery Barn before you head to your yoga class taught by a girl named Sage. It hits you: you’re leading the whitest life imaginable.

But does that mean the city you live in is one of the whitest places in Arkansas?

Don’t worry, we’ve figured it out for you. Using actual census data combined with our favorite white people stereotypes (as confirmed by the internet), we can determine which cities are the whitest of the white in Natural State.

After analyzing cities with populations greater than 5,000, we came up with this list as the whitest cities in Arkansas for 2018:

If you’re wondering, Pine Bluff is the least white city of all those we measured.

Read on below to see where your hometown ranked and why. Or check out the whitest states in America and the most diverse states in America.

How we determined the whitest places in Arkansas for 2018

In order to rank the whitest places in Arkansas, we had to determine what measurable criteria defines whiteness.

Obviously we had to count how many white people living there, but being one of the whitest cities in Arkansas means much more than just having a high percentage of folks who are of the Caucasian persuasion.

These are cities jam-packed with all the stuff white folks love, based on everyone’s favorite stereotypes. After breaking it down, we came up with following criteria to run on 61 cities:

Percentage of population that’s white
Whole Foods per capita
Farmers markets per capita
Vegan restaurants per capita
Pottery Barns per capita
Yoga studios per capita

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Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a city’s border, as well as within a short driving distance.

All of these results are listed in a per capita basis, meaning number of stores per person in a state. Additionally, we limited the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 5,000 people.

We ranked each place with scores from 1 to 61 in each category, where 1 was the whitest.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each place to create a whiteness index.

And finally, we crowned the city with the highest whiteness index the ‘Whitest City In Arkansas.’ We’re lookin’ at you, Mountain Home.

Read on below to learn more about what it’s like to live in whitebread central. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the places in the state from whitest to most diverse in Arkansas.

1. Mountain Home

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Population: 12,312
Percent White: 95.4%
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Mountain Home is a small city and the county seat of Baxter County, Arkansas, United States, in the southern Ozark Mountains near the northern state border with Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12,448. A total of 41,307 persons lived within the city and micropolitan combined, which encompasses the majority of Baxter County.

2. Greenwood

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Population: 9,296
Percent White: 95.0%
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Greenwood is a city in and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States, perhaps best known locally for its Arkansas high school football. It is the fifth largest municipality in the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 8,952 according to the 2010 US Census.

3. Pocahontas

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Population: 6,470
Percent White: 94.9%
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Pocahontas is a city in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States, along the Black River. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 6,765. The city is the county seat of Randolph County.

4. Heber Springs

Population: 7,169
Percent White: 94.3%
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Heber Springs is a city in Cleburne County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 7,165 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Cleburne County.

5. Mena

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Population: 5,674
Percent White: 93.7%
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Mena is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Polk County. The population was 5,637 as of 2000 census.

6. Paragould

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Population: 27,521
Percent White: 92.9%
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Paragould is the county seat of Greene County, and the 19th-largest city in Arkansas, in the United States. The city is located in northeastern Arkansas on the eastern edge of Crowley’s Ridge, a geologic anomaly contained within the Arkansas delta.

7. Pea Ridge

Population: 5,177
Percent White: 92.2%
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Pea Ridge is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. The name Pea Ridge comes from a combination of the physical location of the original settlement of the town, across the crest of an Ozark Mountains ridge, and for the hog peanuts or turkey peas that had been originally cultivated by Native American tribes centuries before European settlement, which later helped to provide basic subsistence once those pioneer settlers arrived.

8. Greenbrier

Population: 5,164
Percent White: 91.8%
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Greenbrier is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,706 at the 2010 census, up from 3,042 at the 2000 census.

9. Harrison

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Population: 13,168
Percent White: 91.7%
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Harrison is a city in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is the county seat. It named after General Marcus LaRue Harrison, a surveyor that laid out the city along Crooked Creek at Stifler Springs. According to 2012 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 13,163, up from 12,943 at the 2010 census.

10. Farmington

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Population: 6,470
Percent White: 90.1%
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Farmington is a city in Washington County, Arkansas. The community is nestled in a valley among the Boston Mountains, a subset of the Ozark Mountains. Although the first settlers came from the Deep South in 1828, the community did not incorporate until 1946. Located immediately west of Fayetteville in the Northwest Arkansas metropolitan statistical area, Farmington has been experiencing a population boom in recent years, as indicated by a 66% growth in population between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. It has been characterized as a bedroom community by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center.

There You Have It – The Whitest of The White Bread In Arkansas

Measuring both the locations with the highest percentage of white people, as well as the number of stereo-typically white venues, this list provides accurate information on the whitest places in Arkansas.

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Detailed List Of The Whitest Cities In Arkansas for 2018

Rank	City	Population
1
Mountain Home	12,312	95.4%
2
Greenwood	9,296	95.0%
3
Pocahontas	6,470	94.9%
4
Heber Springs	7,169	94.3%
5
Mena	5,674	93.7%
6
Paragould	27,521	92.9%
7
Pea Ridge	5,177	92.2%
8
Greenbrier	5,164	91.8%
9
Harrison	13,168	91.7%
10
Farmington	6,470	90.1%
11
Cabot	25,407	90.0%
12
Alma	5,599	88.5%
13
Beebe	7,952	88.2%
14
Trumann	7,143	87.5%
15
Benton	33,613	84.1%
16
Bryant	19,529	83.8%
17
Searcy	23,969	82.3%
18
Centerton	11,403	80.4%
19
Fayetteville	80,552	78.7%
20
Batesville	10,579	78.2%
21
Van Buren	23,155	75.3%
22
White Hall	5,243	75.2%
23
Maumelle	17,795	75.0%
24
Russellville	29,136	74.7%
25
Conway	64,184	74.3%
26
Bentonville	42,499	74.2%
27
Sherwood	30,251	71.2%
28
Jonesboro	72,638	70.8%
29
Berryville	5,370	70.1%
30
Hot Springs	36,711	69.9%
31
Clarksville	9,391	68.9%
32
Morrilton	6,746	68.3%
33
Siloam Springs	16,095	65.2%
34
Newport	7,781	65.0%
35
Lowell	8,322	64.4%
36
Arkadelphia	10,728	63.9%
37
Marion	12,323	62.7%
38
Malvern	10,937	62.6%
39
Wynne	8,195	61.6%
40
Fort Smith	87,712	61.4%
41
Rogers	61,979	60.8%
42
Texarkana	30,155	60.1%
43
Stuttgart	9,125	57.8%
44
Monticello	9,752	57.0%
45
Crossett	5,272	54.7%
46
Magnolia	11,651	53.2%
47
Jacksonville	28,661	51.4%
48
Springdale	76,188	49.0%
49
North Little Rock	66,042	47.2%
50
Little Rock	197,640	46.3%
51
El Dorado	18,393	44.9%
52
Camden	11,515	39.8%
53
Osceola	7,315	39.5%
54
Warren	5,804	39.3%
55
Blytheville	14,849	37.0%
56
De Queen	6,657	33.6%
57
West Memphis	25,411	32.2%
58
Hope	9,968	30.8%
59
Forrest City	14,871	26.1%
60
Helena-West Helena	11,325	22.3%
61
Pine Bluff	45,404	20.5%