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About Paragould
City in Arkansas, United StatesParagould is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, and the 15th-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. Paragould is the principal city of the Paragould, Arkansas Micropolitan Statistical Area and is also a part of the Jonesboro-Paragould Combined Statistical Area. The population of Paragould was 29,537 as of the 2020 Census, compared to 26,113 at the 2010 census.
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Housing in Paragould
The typical Paragould home is worth about $196,000, up 2.8% in a year, 14% below the Arkansas typical home.
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Safety in Paragould
Safety Grade D
Paragould reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 94% report less.
Schools in Paragould
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The public schools Paragould’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 56% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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