1 in 8 Arkansas Dumpster Rental Companies Averages Under 3 Stars. Here's the Data.
Arkansas has 42 dumpster rental listings on Google. Its share with no reviews (9.5%) matches the national rate, but 11.9% average under 3 stars, second-highest in the country. Little Rock accounts for most of them.
1 in 8 Arkansas Dumpster Rental Companies Averages Under 3 Stars
Corrected October 2026. An earlier version of this post reported a 21.4% "ghost listing" rate. That figure counted low-rated companies as ghosts and compared the result with a national average that didn't. Measured the same way as the national figure, Arkansas's rate of empty listings is 9.5%, exactly average. This version separates the two.
Arkansas is a small market. Google showed 42 dumpster rental listings for the whole state in April 2026, fewer than Houston alone. In a market that small, a handful of companies decide how a search goes.
The two numbers
| Arkansas | National | |
|---|---|---|
| No reviews or no rating | 4 of 42 (9.5%) | 9.5% |
| Rated under 3.0 stars | 5 of 42 (11.9%) | 4.3% |
Little Rock carries the problem
| City | Listings | No reviews | Under 3 stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Rock | 13 | 1 | 3 |
| Fort Smith | 5 | 2 | 0 |
Fort Smith has the opposite gap. Two of its five listings have no reviews at all, so there's little to go on either way.
The northwest corner is the bright spot
The best-rated companies in the state cluster in Northwest Arkansas and around Little Rock:
| DCS | Company | City | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | Ozark Dumpster Service | Springdale | 5.0 | 458 |
| 95 | Dumpster Dudez | Fayetteville | 5.0 | 237 |
| 95 | Bin There Dump That Little Rock | Bryant | 5.0 | 233 |
| 89 | College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving Little Rock | Little Rock | 4.8 | 1,347 |
| 89 | 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Little Rock | Little Rock | 5.0 | 774 |
Before you book in Arkansas
1. Check the rating and the count together. 4.8 stars from 200 reviews tells you far more than 5.0 from 3. 2. Read the one-star reviews first. Look for problems that keep repeating: no-show deliveries, surprise fees, damage to driveways. 3. Ask whether the company owns its trucks. In small markets, some listings are brokers that pass your job to whoever is free. 4. Confirm the weight limit and the price per extra ton before the dumpster arrives.
See every company in the state ranked by DCS Score in our [Arkansas directory](/dumpster-rental/arkansas), or use the [size estimator](/tools/size-estimator) to work out what you need first.
Method
Google Places data, April 2026, 6,304 listings nationwide. "No reviews" means zero reviews or no star rating. "Under 3 stars" means at least one review and an average below 3.0. Rankings cover the 37 states with 40 or more listings. The [DCS Score](/methodology) is a 100-point rating built from public data. No company pays for placement.
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