| MEDICAID ELIGIBLES | ||||||||||
| Medicaid | Percent | Medicaid | Percent | |||||||
| County | Eligibles | Population | Eligible | County | Eligibles | Population | Eligible | |||
| Baxter | 5,331 | 36,402 | 14.64% | Calhoun | 1,070 | 5,729 | 18.68% | |||
| Benton | 12,981 | 134,162 | 9.68% | Clark | 3,775 | 21,933 | 17.21% | |||
| Boone | 6,010 | 31,872 | 18.86% | Columbia | 5,794 | 25,060 | 23.12% | |||
| Carroll | 3,446 | 22,534 | 15.29% | Dallas | 2,557 | 9,060 | 28.22% | |||
| Crawford | 9,591 | 50,334 | 19.05% | Garland | 14,951 | 83,976 | 17.80% | |||
| Franklin | 3,322 | 16,932 | 19.62% | Hempstead | 5,307 | 22,113 | 24.00% | |||
| Logan | 5,076 | 21,173 | 23.97% | Hot Spring | 5,520 | 29,035 | 19.01% | |||
| Madison | 2,485 | 13,224 | 18.79% | Howard | 2,789 | 13,724 | 20.32% | |||
| Marion | 3,027 | 14,918 | 20.29% | Lafayette | 2,393 | 8,926 | 26.81% | |||
| Newton | 2,279 | 8,180 | 27.86% | Little River | 2,700 | 13,206 | 20.45% | |||
| Polk | 4,320 | 19,662 | 21.97% | Miller | 8,995 | 39,857 | 22.57% | |||
| Scott | 2,524 | 10,686 | 23.62% | Montgomery | 1,619 | 8,655 | 18.71% | |||
| Searcy | 2,296 | 7,761 | 29.58% | Nevada | 2,294 | 10,034 | 22.86% | |||
| Sebastian | 17,118 | 106,180 | 16.12% | Ouachita | 6,975 | 27,921 | 24.98% | |||
| Washington | 17,154 | 138,454 | 12.39% | Pike | 1,986 | 10,592 | 18.75% | |||
| Area 1 Total | 96,960 | 632,474 | 15.33% | Saline | 9,294 | 77,412 | 12.01% | |||
| Sevier | 2,861 | 14,623 | 19.57% | |||||||
| Clay | 3,739 | 17,223 | 21.71% | Union | 10,649 | 45,304 | 23.51% | |||
| Craighead | 13,651 | 77,500 | 17.61% | Area 4 Total | 91,529 | 467,160 | 19.59% | |||
| Fulton | 2,965 | 10,901 | 27.20% | |||||||
| Greene | 6,604 | 36,192 | 18.25% | Arkansas | 4,557 | 20,787 | 21.92% | |||
| Independence | 6,452 | 33,054 | 19.52% | Ashley | 5,643 | 24,448 | 23.08% | |||
| Izard | 2,871 | 13,093 | 21.93% | Bradley | 2,940 | 11,433 | 25.72% | |||
| Jackson | 4,715 | 17,783 | 26.51% | Chicot | 5,584 | 14,841 | 37.63% | |||
| Lawrence | 4,589 | 17,304 | 26.52% | Cleveland | 1,659 | 8,452 | 19.63% | |||
| Mississippi | 15,834 | 50,635 | 31.27% | Crittenden | 13,589 | 49,905 | 27.23% | |||
| Poinsett | 6,643 | 24,750 | 26.84% | Cross | 5,169 | 19,564 | 26.42% | |||
| Randolph | 4,355 | 17,802 | 24.46% | Desha | 4,817 | 15,110 | 31.88% | |||
| Sharp | 3,941 | 16,993 | 23.19% | Drew | 4,379 | 17,575 | 24.92% | |||
| Area 2 Total | 76,359 | 333,230 | 22.91% | Grant | 2,101 | 15,897 | 13.22% | |||
| Jefferson | 19,570 | 81,556 | 24.00% | |||||||
| Cleburne | 3,754 | 22,923 | 16.38% | Lee | 4,551 | 12,406 | 36.68% | |||
| Conway | 4,168 | 19,920 | 20.92% | Lincoln | 2,990 | 14,274 | 20.95% | |||
| Faulkner | 10,553 | 78,382 | 13.46% | Monroe | 3,521 | 10,200 | 34.52% | |||
| Johnson | 4,486 | 21,403 | 20.96% | Phillips | 11,681 | 27,363 | 42.69% | |||
| Lonoke | 7,599 | 50,156 | 15.15% | St. Francis | 10,368 | 28,162 | 36.82% | |||
| Perry | 1,812 | 9,640 | 18.80% | Area 5 Total | 103,119 | 371,973 | 27.72% | |||
| Pope | 10,342 | 52,059 | 19.87% | |||||||
| Prairie | 1,869 | 9,410 | 19.86% | Pulaski* | 60,792 | 350,345 | 17.35% | |||
| Stone | 2,782 | 11,154 | 24.94% | Area 6 Total | 60,792 | 350,345 | 17.35% | |||
| Van Buren | 3,376 | 15,550 | 21.71% | |||||||
| White | 11,235 | 64,526 | 17.41% | |||||||
| Woodruff | 2,824 | 8,888 | 31.77% | |||||||
| Yell | 4,121 | 19,110 | 21.56% | State Total | 497,680 | 2,538,303 | 19.61% | |||
| Area 3 Total | 68,921 | 383,121 | 17.99% | |||||||
| * | Eligibles figures for Pulaski South, North, Southwest, East and Jacksonville | |||||||||
| were combined because there was no population estimate breakdown. | ||||||||||
| Source: Report RS-1834 for the Medicaid Eligibles and the Arkansas Institute for Economic | ||||||||||
| Advancement, UALR, July 1, 1998 population estimate for 1998 | ||||||||||