Ash Flat, Arkansas.
Typical home $160,606 (+2.0% in a year). Batesville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$439 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,102 +2%
- $157,504$160,606 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,661 +20%
- $133,945$160,606 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.
- Ash Flat$843
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Ash Flat, AR rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ash Flat, Sharp County, Arkansas
Ash Flat is a city of 1,137 people in Sharp County. Half its households earn more than $41,667 a year and half less, against $44,637 across Sharp County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sharp County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sharp County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ash Flat is a small city in Sharp County, Arkansas, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing at times, only light snow, and plenty of rain through the year. Summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Sharp County, the largest workplaces include the Highland School District, Walmart and the Cave City School District. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has stayed about level.
Things to do. The South Fork Spring River is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Mammoth Spring State Park and Grand Gulf State Park, both protected natural areas. Powhatan Historic State Park, also a longer drive, is a museum site for those who like local history.
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- 418households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Sharp County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sharp County had 3,950 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hardy weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sharp County
- Highland School DistrictSchool district289FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters245
- Cave City School DistrictSchool district232FTE
- Emerson Professional Tools MFGPower transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers142
- UniFirst CAVE CITY MAT MANUFIndustrial launderer102
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery50
- North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Ash FlatDistribution of electric power25
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 587 people in all across the county; Ash Flat has two 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively 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 Ash Flat’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 Sharp County and the Batesville, AR metro.
Ash Flat home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ash Flat$160,606
- 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.
- Ash Flat8
Zip codes with a Ash Flat address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ash Flat — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.