Toilet Repair in Arkansas

Weighted across 258,980 occupied homes. Separately, 44% of the state’s 284,139 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 34 towns we route in here, 0 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 16 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 11 are strongly owner-occupied and 2 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Arkansas

Arkansas licenses are issued by the Arkansas Department of Health, Plumbing and Natural Gas Section, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Alma 71% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Barling 74% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Bella Vista 88% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Bentonville 58% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Canehill 72% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Cave Springs 93% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Cedarville 94% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Centerton 63% owner-occupied · 8% pre-1990
• Decatur 61% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Dyer 75% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Elkins 82% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Farmington 79% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Fayetteville 48% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Fort Smith 55% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Garfield 88% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Gentry 78% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Gravette 83% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Hindsville 79% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Hiwasse 73% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Huntsville 80% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Lincoln 69% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Lowell 70% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Mountainburg 92% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Pea Ridge 80% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Prairie Grove 71% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Rogers 61% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Siloam Springs 64% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Springdale 58% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Sulphur Springs 68% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Summers 73% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Van Buren 69% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Wesley 80% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• West Fork 81% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Winslow 89% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990