Arp, Texas.
Typical home $166,821 (-1.6% in a year). Tyler, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,708 -2%
- $169,529$166,821 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $490 +0%
- $166,331$166,821 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.
- Arp$876
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Arp, TX fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arp, Smith County, Texas
Arp is a city of 892 people in Smith County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Smith County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Smith County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arp is a very small city in Smith County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is not unusual here, though it affects fewer households than in many places, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country. Winters are mild, with only a trace of snow in a typical year, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Smith County, some of the biggest employers are Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, The University of Texas at Tyler and Tyler ISD. The usual commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Tyler and Lake Tyler East, both reservoirs, are a short drive away and are the closest places for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Caldwell Zoo and to Tyler State Park, a protected area. Liberty Hall, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 358households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Smith County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Smith County had 115,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Smith County
- Christus Mother Frances Hosp-tylerGeneral hospital3,619FTE
- The University of Texas at TylerUniversity or college3,038
- Tyler ISDSchool district2,656FTE
- Trane Technologies2,470
- UT Health East Texas TylerGeneral hospital1,907FTE
- Sanderson Farms Tyler ProcessingPoultry processing1,619
- Choice Health at HomeHome health care agencies1,500
- Brookshire Grocery CompanyGeneral warehousing and storage1,328
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 203 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,451 people in all across the county; Arp has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arp’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Smith County and the Tyler, TX metro.
Arp home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arp$166,821
- Texas$296,424
- 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.
- Arp11
Zip codes with a Arp address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arp — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.