Counties / Arkansas / Clark County

Clark County, AR

FIPS 05019 · population 21,125 · outside every metro area

$168k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$168k
▲ 3.9% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$793
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$880
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+49.2%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+3.9%FHFA HPI2025+4.2%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$155k
Surveyed gross rent$793
Rent burden 30%+48.2%
Median year built1985
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
19.0%vacant
10,029estimated housing units
Occupied tenure35.0% renter
owner 65.0%renter 35.0%
Structure mix65.8% single-family
Single-family 65.8%20+ units 2.8%Mobile home 14.8%Other 16.6%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs8,762▲ 1.7% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments674annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$909▲ 3.9% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorManufacturing21.7% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+1.7%WEEKLY WAGE+3.9%Manufacturing21.7%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Clark County’s decision tension is a still-rising county value signal against a looser visible listing market and unverified income return. Buyers able to validate lease rates and flood-specific carrying costs should investigate; yield-led buyers should be cautious. Zillow’s June 2026 median home value was $168,242, up 3.86% year over year. FHFA’s separate 2025 repeat-transaction HPI increased 4.22% annually and 49.18% over five years. The HPI supports the direction of Zillow’s observation, but is not a home value and the two methods and vintages cannot be combined.

02Housing economics

No county market rent is published, so gross yield cannot be computed. The HUD two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent, and cannot fill that gap. The reported effective property-tax rate is 0.56%, with median annual tax of $871; these are carrying-cost inputs rather than a complete expense budget. Insurance, flood-zone status, utilities, repairs, vacancy, financing and property-level taxes are not published, preventing a net-cash-flow conclusion.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s distinct 2026-06 MLS snapshot shows active listings up 55.92% year over year, a 61-day median marketing time, and a 16.46% pending-to-active ratio; reported price reductions add evidence of seller concessions. These are asking-price, visible-supply and marketing-time measures—not closed-sale prices or stand-alone proof of buyer demand. Migration was slightly negative, while incoming mover average income trailed departing mover average income. Investors accounted for 25 of 191 purchases, or a calculated 13.09%, indicating some non-owner competition but not its bid behavior or property mix.

04Risk & next checks

In the supplied annual QCEW county data, covered employment at county workplaces increased and Manufacturing was the largest disclosed private supersector; this is not resident employment, unemployment, or a forecast of the whole economy. Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and the modeled expected annual building-value loss ratio is 0.17%, not a claim about a particular parcel. Obtain market-rent comps, actual leases, flood maps and insurance quotes, inspection and repair evidence, closed-sale comps, and property-level tax bills before setting rent, value, liquidity or resilience assumptions.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Clark County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Arkadelphia city10.1KGurdon city1.6KCaddo Valley town775Amity city740Okolona town287Gum Springs town55Whelen Springs town52Alpine CDP0
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

9 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Arkadelphia cityIncorporated place
    10,099
  2. 02
    Gurdon cityIncorporated place
    1,625
  3. 03
    Caddo Valley townIncorporated place
    775
  4. 04
    Amity cityIncorporated place
    740
  5. 05
    Okolona townIncorporated place
    287
  6. 06
    Gum Springs townIncorporated place
    55
  7. 07
    Whelen Springs townIncorporated place
    52
  8. 08
    Alpine CDPCensus-designated place
    0
  9. 09
    Beirne CDPCensus-designated place
    0

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.169% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.56%

$871 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration-4

547 in · 551 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$9,475

$39,020 arriving · $48,495 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors13.1%

25 of 191 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings119▲ 55.9% year over year
Median days on market61▲ 11.9% year over year
Listings price-reduced17.3%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▲ 17.8% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; no wider market is mapped for it either.
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Unpublished market rent and operating costs may mean observed values do not support a viable income return.
  2. MLS inventory and concession signals may not predict closed-sale prices or the subject property’s resale liquidity.
  3. Flood exposure, insurance cost, condition and taxes can vary materially by parcel despite county-level data.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is a county market rent published?

No. Only HUD Fair Market Rent is supplied, and it is a payment standard rather than market asking rent.

What is the county’s dominant hazard?

Inland flood.

Which private supersector is the largest disclosed employer in QCEW data?

Manufacturing.