Living in Fayetteville, AR

It's elevated — there's no way to sugarcoat a violent crime index of 162 when the national average sits at 100. Property crime is at 111. That said, city-wide averages hide a lot of variation. There are safe, quiet neighborhoods in Fayetteville where people raise families without much worry. The key is doing granular research: talk to residents, check precinct-level data, and visit at different times of day before signing a lease. FBI UCR numbers.

By most measures, yes. The median rent of $1,065/month against a median household income of $62,695/year works out to a 20.4% rent-to-income ratio. Financial planners generally want that number under 30%, so Fayetteville clears the bar with room to spare. You'll have breathing space for savings, car payments, and the occasional splurge. Numbers from Census ACS 2023.

The average worker in Fayetteville spends about 16 minutes getting to the office. Driving solo is the default (71.9%), with 14.9% working remotely and 1.1% on public transit. It's a fairly typical commute — not a selling point, not a dealbreaker.

Everything on this page is built from public government sources: rent and income figures from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 5-Year Estimates, 2023); commute and transportation data from Census ACS tables B08303 and B08006; crime rates from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. We refresh each dataset monthly through an automated pipeline and cross-check for anomalies. No surveys, no user-submitted guesses — just official federal data presented in a way that's actually useful for people researching a move.