Alexander, Arkansas.
Typical home $280,123 (+3.2% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$736 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,669 +3%
- $271,455$280,123 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,408 +16%
- $241,715$280,123 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.
- Alexander$1,470
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Alexander, AR rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alexander, Saline County, Arkansas
Alexander is a city of 3,385 people in Saline County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Saline County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alexander is a small city in Saline County, Arkansas, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is far more common here than in most places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also well represented. Across Saline County, the largest workplaces include the Bryant School District, the Benton School District and Saline Memorial Hospital. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, and only a few people work from home. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little.
Things to do. Boyle Park is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Pinnacle Mountain State Park, a protected area for walking and views. The Clinton Presidential Center, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,213households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 28,549 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- Bryant School DistrictSchool district1,256FTE
- Benton School DistrictSchool district709FTE
- Saline Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital462FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters445
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters434
- Central Arkansas Development CouncilCommunity action advocacy organizations306
- Arcwood Environmental - Benton PlantHazardous waste treatment facilities232
- Encore Medical CenterGeneral hospital230FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,788 people in all across the county; Alexander has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of AlexanderRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alexander’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Saline County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Alexander home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alexander$280,123
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Alexander listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Alexander23.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alexander78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alexander18
Zip codes with a Alexander address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alexander — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.