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HVAC and plumbing companies in Pope County, AR
How Pope County, AR compares with other counties and the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 36 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,331 of 1,707 scored counties
#21 of 35 scored counties in Arkansas
- Listings
- 17
- 1 chain location (6%)
- Official establishments
- 28
- −6.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $62.5M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,569 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.7M
- 23% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.0
- 11% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 64,976
- +2.5% since 2020
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What this means
For HVAC and plumbing companies, Pope County has a Groundwork market score of 36 (lower middle): #1,331 of 1,707 scored counties and #21 of 35 scored counties in Arkansas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Pope County spend about $62.5M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $2,569 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That works out to $3.7M per company, 23% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only HVAC and plumbing companies.
Pope County has 17 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (6%) is a chain location, against 4% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.0, 11% above the U.S. rate of 6.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Pope County was 28 in 2023, down 6.7% from 2019. That is one for every 870 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $75K has gone to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Pope County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Pope County grew 2.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Pope County compares
The same measures for Arkansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the HVAC and plumbing companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Pope County | Arkansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.0 | 6.4 | 6.3 |
| Spending per listing | $3.7M | $4.1M | $4.8M |
| Households per official establishment | 870 | 1,053 | 1,162 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −6.7% | +15.5% | +7.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.5% | +3.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,569 | $2,629 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $57,344 | $60,773 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 36 | 32 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 30 → 28−6.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 181
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $13.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 171 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $75K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Pope County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Pope County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 64,976+2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 24,348
- Median age
- 38.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 811 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 79
- Median household income
- $57,344+31.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,412
- Median home value
- $170,100
- Jobs located here
- 27,904
- Daytime population
- 65,219Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Arkansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Benton County, AR | 70 | 69 | 6.2 | $5.3M | +16.0% | #211 of 1,707 |
| 2Faulkner County, AR | 68 | 22 | 4.5 | $6.2M | +8.2% | #248 of 1,707 |
| 3Washington County, AR | 56 | 65 | 6.7 | $4.3M | +9.9% | #648 of 1,707 |
| 4Crittenden County, AR | 55 | 8 | 4.4 | $5.5M | −3.9% | #671 of 1,707 |
| 5Carroll County, AR | 51 | 6 | 5.3 | $4.7M | +3.6% | #810 of 1,707 |
| 6Greene County, AR | 49 | 10 | 5.6 | $4.5M | +3.4% | #894 of 1,707 |
| 7Pulaski County, AR | 49 | 124 | 7.2 | $3.8M | +1.3% | #903 of 1,707 |
| 8Crawford County, AR | 47 | 15 | 6.4 | $4M | +4.1% | #959 of 1,707 |
| 9Independence County, AR | 45 | 8 | 5.5 | $4.6M | +2.2% | #1,020 of 1,707 |
| 10Hot Spring County, AR | 45 | 7 | 5.7 | $4.2M | +1.1% | #1,025 of 1,707 |
| 21Pope County, AR | 36 | 17 | 7.0 | $3.7M | +2.5% | #1,331 of 1,707 |
Other business types in Pope County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many HVAC and plumbing companies are in Pope County, AR?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 HVAC and plumbing companies in Pope County. One of them (6%) is a chain location. The listings count heating and air-conditioning companies and plumbers. Official counts show 28 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in 2023, down 6.7% from 2019.
How much do households in Pope County, AR spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $62.5M a year, or $2,569 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings, it comes to $3.7M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which HVAC and plumbing companies share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 24,348 households in Pope County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Pope County, AR compare with the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies?
Pope County has 7.0 HVAC and plumbing companies per 10,000 households, 11% above the U.S. rate of 6.3. Spending per company is $3.7M, 23% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. At the U.S. ratio of HVAC and plumbing companies to household spending, Pope County would have about 13, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 870 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S. The official count fell 6.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.6% for the U.S.
How fast is Pope County, AR growing?
Population estimates put Pope County at 64,976 people in 2025, up 2.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 24,348 households. Median household income in Pope County is $57,344, 29% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 31.9%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Pope County scores 36 for HVAC and plumbing companies (lower middle), #1,331 of 1,707 scored counties.
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