Frank Scott Jr. (Democratic) has been Mayor of Little Rock since 1 Jan 2019. The unemployment rate stood at 4.0% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 0.8 percentage points higher than when Frank Scott Jr. took office in January 2019; Arkansas's moved +0.2 percentage points over the same months. Little Rock ranks 12th of 59 cities on the fall in homelessness; on the fall in violent crime it is 92nd of 106. The widest gap with Arkansas is in the average hourly pay: −0.7% a year against +0.4%; the gap was widest in Mar 2022, −12.2% against +3.3%. Under Mark Stodola (2007 to 2018) the unemployment rate fell 1.6 percentage points. Since day zero typical rent climbed 4.5% a year, 41.0% in all.

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