Bee Branch, Arkansas.
Typical home $227,764 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$656 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,714 +5%
- $217,050$227,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,905 +16%
- $196,859$227,764 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.
- Bee Branch$1,195
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Bee Branch, AR rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bee Branch, Van Buren County, Arkansas
Bee Branch, in Van Buren County, had 293 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $76,205 a year and half less, against $50,354 across Van Buren County. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Buren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bee Branch is a very small community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in January, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Van Buren County, some of the biggest workplaces are Ozark Health, the Clinton School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Greers Ferry Lake, a reservoir, is the best known of the nearby places, and it is a longer drive away. Woolly Hollow State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive, and so is Cadron Settlement, a park. Each makes for a day trip.
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What people in Van Buren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 3,705 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenbrier weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Buren County
- Ozark HealthSkilled nursing facilities398
- Clinton School DistrictSchool district239FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- Ozark HealthCritical access hospital195FTE
- South Side School District(vanburen)School district122FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery79
- Shirley School DistrictSchool district65FTE
- Petit Jean Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 773 people in all across the county; Bee Branch has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bee Branch’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 Van Buren County.
Bee Branch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bee Branch$227,764
- 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.
- Bee Branch12
Zip codes with a Bee Branch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bee Branch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.