72904
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, AR · Fort Smith, AR-OK metro · population 21,296
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$220 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24 +0%
- $111,031$111,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,274 -1%
- $112,328$111,055 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- 72904$583
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in zip 72904 rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 72904 rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 72904 runs $159/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $291 in Jun 2026.
That is $760 a month against $918 rent: a $583 mortgage payment, plus $58 property tax and $119 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 72904
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$760
- Renting$918
- Mortgage only$583
Property tax · $58/mo 0.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Sebastian County, AR
Insurance & upkeep · $119/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Fort Smith, AR — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 72904
Against the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro and the national benchmark.
- 72904$918
- Fort Smith$1,074
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 72904
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 72904$111,055
- Fort Smith$202,649
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 72901 | Fort Smith | 19,819 | $860 | $133,500 |
| 4.2 | 72956 | Van Buren | 34,546 | $1,108 | $209,714 |
| 4.5 | 72903 | Fort Smith | 27,242 | $996 | $239,919 |
| 6.0 | 74954 | Roland | 5,105 | — | $184,757 |
| 7.7 | 72908 | Fort Smith | 14,288 | $1,210 | $229,923 |
| 7.8 | 74901 | Arkoma | 1,976 | — | $98,802 |
| 9.0 | 72923 | Barling | 4,956 | $1,195 | $196,394 |
| 9.9 | 72916 | Fort Smith | 11,711 | $1,356 | $320,872 |
| 10.6 | 74948 | Muldrow | 12,382 | $725 | $192,504 |
| 11.2 | 72921 | Alma | 12,888 | $1,150 | $253,606 |
| 11.6 | 72952 | Rudy | 2,101 | — | $261,584 |
| 12.8 | 74902 | Pocola | 4,423 | — | $182,513 |
| 13.1 | 72932 | Cedarville | 1,696 | — | $248,917 |
| 13.2 | 72941 | Lavaca | 5,140 | — | $243,645 |
| 17.6 | 74959 | Spiro | 6,375 | — | $148,759 |
| 17.8 | 72936 | Greenwood | 14,070 | $1,178 | $241,328 |
| 19.2 | 72937 | Hackett | 4,075 | — | $204,967 |
| 19.5 | 74936 | Gans | 1,330 | — | $180,170 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.