Austin, Arkansas.
Typical home $245,781 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $1,048 . Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$686 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,816 +5%
- $234,964$245,781 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,149 +25%
- $196,632$245,781 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.
- Austin$1,290
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Austin, AR rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Austin, Lonoke County, Arkansas
Austin is a city of 3,460 people in Lonoke County. Half its households earn more than $113,764 a year and half less, against $72,828 across Lonoke County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Lonoke County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Austin is a small city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, and a young one by the look of its households: residents are younger than in most American communities, and incomes run well above the county's. Very few people live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and only a little snow, while summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow are plentiful across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and government also employing many. Across Lonoke County, some of the largest workplaces are the Cabot School District, Remington, which makes ammunition and small arms, and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute takes a fair stretch of the morning, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The closest option is Beebe Theater, a theatre a short drive away. For a day out, Little Rock is a longer drive away and has the Clinton Presidential Center, a museum, and the Little Rock Zoo. Lake Conway, also a longer drive away, is a lake for time on the water.
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- 1,427households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lonoke County had 15,977 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cabot weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lonoke County
- Cabot School DistrictSchool district1,614FTE
- RemingtonAmmunition, small arms, manufacturing590
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters491
- Lonoke School DistrictSchool district265FTE
- Pinnacle StructuresBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters190
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores127
- England School DistrictSchool district118FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,963 people in all across the county; Austin has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Austin’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 Lonoke County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Austin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Austin$245,781
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Austin listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Austin25.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Austin48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Austin10
Zip codes with a Austin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Austin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.