Bearden, Arkansas.
Typical home $100,236 (+6.2% in a year). Camden, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$180 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,883 +6%
- $94,354$100,236 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,827 -8%
- $109,064$100,236 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.
- Bearden$526
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bearden, AR rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bearden, Ouachita County, Arkansas
Bearden is a city of 776 people in Ouachita County. Unemployment in Ouachita County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ouachita 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bearden is a very small city in Ouachita County, in the south of Arkansas. Homes here cost well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes across the county run lower than in much of the nation. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the people who live here tend to have short trips to work, with only a small number working from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Ouachita County, the largest workplaces include Aerojet Rocketdyne, which makes propulsion units for missiles and space vehicles, the Camden Fairview School District, and Ouachita County Medical Center. Jobs across the county fell somewhat last year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Little Missouri River is the best known of the nearby places, a longer drive away. White Oak Lake State Park, a reservoir with a state park along its shore, is also a longer drive away, as is Poison Springs Battleground State Park, an archaeological site with a Civil War history. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year is wet, so any outing is worth planning around the season.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Ouachita County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ouachita County had 6,807 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer 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 91° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fordyce weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ouachita County
- Aerojet Rocketdyne AR Camden Highland Industrial Park ARMSGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing1,476
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US AR Camden Arkansas Hwy 205 (1527)1,127
- Camden Fairview School DistrictSchool district430FTE
- Ouachita County Medical CenterGeneral hospital328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- InDemand Industrial Services CorporateConstruction258
- Anthony TimberlandsDimension lumber, softwood, made from logs or bolts228
- Southern Arkansas University TechTwo-year college216
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,223 people in all across the county; Bearden has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bearden’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 Ouachita County and the Camden, AR metro.
Bearden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bearden$100,236
- 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.
- Bearden4
Zip codes with a Bearden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bearden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.