Alpena, Arkansas.
Typical home $232,503 (+1.0% in a year). Harrison, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$715 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,410 +1%
- $230,093$232,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,920 +26%
- $184,584$232,503 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.
- Alpena$1,220
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Alpena, AR rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Alpena, Carroll County, Arkansas
Alpena is a town of 374 people in Carroll County. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alpena is a very small town in Carroll County, Arkansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Incomes across Carroll County run below those in much of the country, and a typical home here is valued well under what it would cost in many parts of the state. Few adults have a four-year degree, and trips to work are short.
Work. Most residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, or in shops. Across Carroll County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Poultry, the Berryville School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Table Rock Lake, a large reservoir, is the best known place nearby, and Table Rock State Park sits along its shore; both are a longer drive away. Silver Dollar City, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away, as are the cave tours at Marvel Cave. Winters here are cold, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 10,708 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrison Boone County Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,785
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,046
- Berryville School DistrictSchool district328FTE
- Green Forest School DistrictSchool district282FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- NimbusWind power structure construction173
- Mid-States Specialty Eggs, BerryvilleEggs merchant wholesalers150
- Fortrex - 0527 Tyson Foods Inc. - Green ForestJanitorial services138
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,298 people in all across the county; Alpena has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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 stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alpena’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Carroll County and the Harrison, AR metro.
Alpena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpena$232,503
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alpena9
Zip codes with a Alpena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.