City guides / Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway
Endcap Design is a web design agency that designs and builds websites for businesses, with the branding and marketing to match, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California. This guide collects the business numbers, building activity, and Arkansas rules we would look at before designing a site for a business in Little Rock or elsewhere in the metro, including Conway, Benton, and Sherwood.
Updated October 2026 with building permits through August 2026, from U.S. Census Bureau data. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email.
The market
The figures that shape who a Little Rock website is for and what it needs to do. Each figure is the most recent Census release in this guide’s data, with its year shown.
777,607
residents in the metro
Census population estimate, July 2025
+3.8%
population change since 2020
April 2020 to July 2025; the US grew 3.1%
19,170
business locations with employees
County Business Patterns 2023
876
real estate businesses
NAICS 531, 2023
109
property management companies
Residential and nonresidential, 2023
1,828
new housing units permitted
January through August 2026
$68,344
median household income
American Community Survey 2024
36%
of households rent their home
115,911 renter households
Business mix
Law offices are the most concentrated of these businesses in the Little Rock metro: 74 for every 100,000 residents, and their share of local businesses is 1.38 times the national share. Self-storage operators follow at 1.10 times the national share. Property management companies are less common here than nationally, at 0.60 times the national share.
The chart compares each sector’s share of Little Rock-area business locations with its share nationally (a location quotient). 1.00× matches the US; higher means the sector is more concentrated here. County Business Patterns 2023.
Building activity
New buildings mean new properties to lease and new businesses to open. Census Building Permits Survey, August 2026.
Builders in the Little Rock metro were authorized to build 1,828 new housing units from January through August 2026, 19% fewer than the 2,261 in the same months of 2025.
5% of those units are in buildings with five or more homes, against 32% nationally.
Most new construction here is single-family. New subdivisions and the shopping centers that follow them need leasing and community websites as each phase opens.
What this means for your site
What we would plan into a Little Rock website, based on the numbers above.
Talk through your siteLaw offices are 1.38 times as concentrated here as nationally. Their sites need clear service pages, the people behind the work, and a contact form that asks the right first questions.
Brokerage websites in Arkansas carry specific disclosure requirements (17 CAR § 220-1004; 17 CAR § 220-805(b); 17 CAR § 220-701; Ark. Code Ann. § 17-42-311(a)(10)). We build them into the footer and listing templates, so every page that advertises a property has them.
Every site we build follows WCAG 2.2 AA practice: readable contrast, keyboard navigation, labeled forms, and text alternatives for images. Federal ADA website lawsuits run into the thousands each year, most of them filed in New York, Florida, and Illinois.
Arkansas rules
State rules that change what goes on a business or real estate website in Arkansas, checked against official sources as of October 9, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; your counsel owns the final wording.
Worth knowing Arkansas real estate advertising must include the name of the firm the licensee is licensed with under 17 CAR § 220-1004, and the Arkansas Real Estate Commission's July 2025 guide says licensee and team websites should show the firm name and contact information on every viewable page.
Privacy
Arkansas has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. This reflects published state privacy-law trackers. Privacy laws in other states, and federal rules, can still apply when a site collects data from their residents.
Real estate advertising
Every Arkansas advertisement of property for sale or rent, and every real estate or property management sign, must include the name of the firm with which the licensee is licensed, and a principal broker and the broker's licensees may advertise only under the name in which the principal broker's license was issued. The Commission's July 2025 Advertising Best Practices Guide, which is guidance rather than rule text, says the firm name and contact information should appear on the home or landing page of a website and on every viewable page of a licensee or team website.
Accessibility
The subchapter states Arkansas policy that technology bought in whole or in part with state funds for creating, storing, retrieving or disseminating information, and intended for use by employees, program participants and the public, must be accessible to and usable by individuals who are blind or visually impaired, with a reasonable accommodation required when accessible technology is not reasonably available. Section 25-26-204(b), as amended in 2013, requires the state's nonvisual access standards to follow the federal Section 508 standards for web-based intranet and Internet information and applications in 36 C.F.R. § 1194.22 and for software in 36 C.F.R. § 1194.21, as they existed on January 1, 2013. Act 308 applies retroactively to information technology procured on or after July 30, 1999.
What we design
Ordered by how concentrated each kind of business is in the Little Rock metro. We design for every kind of business.
Portfolio
Websites and identities we have designed and built for our clients. See all of our work.
Client words
We own ten homes at Casa De Laguna and were still sending people to a site built in 2013. Noah pulled the photos and details out of the old site, designed a logo from the rooflines and the pond, and put the community, the homes and current availability in one place. It’s the first time the website has looked like the place we actually rent.
“Highly recommend. Great work.”
The Census Bureau counted 876 real estate business locations with employees in the Little Rock metro in 2023, including 330 offices of agents and brokers and 109 property management companies.
From January through August 2026, the Little Rock metro permitted 1,828 new housing units, 19% fewer than a year earlier, according to the Census Building Permits Survey.
Arkansas has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. Privacy laws in other states can still apply when a website collects data from their residents.
Every Arkansas advertisement of property for sale or rent, and every real estate or property management sign, must include the name of the firm with which the licensee is licensed, and a principal broker and the broker's licensees may advertise only under the name in which the principal broker's license was issued. The Commission's July 2025 Advertising Best Practices Guide, which is guidance rather than rule text, says the firm name and contact information should appear on the home or landing page of a website and on every viewable page of a licensee or team website. (17 CAR § 220-1004 (formerly Commission Rule 10.5); 17 CAR § 220-805(b); 17 CAR § 220-701; Ark. Code Ann. § 17-42-311(a)(10))
Yes. Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email. You review the design and the working site online before launch.
We quote each project after a short conversation, once we know the pages, content, and features it needs. The proposal lists the deliverables, schedule, and price, and we agree on it before work begins.
Most websites take two to four weeks once the content is ready. The proposal confirms the schedule.
Nearby city guides
National rankings: where the US is building, property managers by metro, brokerages by metro, and commercial landlords by metro.
Sources
Figures are for the metropolitan statistical area unless noted. Business counts cover locations with paid employees. Data refreshed 2026-10-10.
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