Blytheville, Arkansas.
Typical home $101,840 (+8.7% in a year). Blytheville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$257 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,113 +9%
- $93,727$101,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $19,329 -16%
- $121,169$101,840 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.
- Blytheville$535
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Blytheville, AR rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Blytheville is a city of 13,406 people in Mississippi County. Half its households earn more than $47,865 a year and half less, against $52,548 across Mississippi County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Mississippi County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blytheville is a small city in Mississippi County, in the northeast corner of Arkansas. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size. Homeowners and renters are about evenly split, and homes cost well under what they do in much of the country. Winters are cold, with freezing nights in January and only a little snow. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Most residents work in manufacturing, shops, schools and hospitals, or restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Blytheville are the Blytheville School District, Arkansas Northeastern College and Great River Medical Center. The commute is short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Eaker Site, an archaeological site, is in or beside town, and the Campbell Archeological Site is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away. Fort Pillow State Park, also an archaeological site, is a longer drive as well.
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- 5,792households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mississippi County had 19,773 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blytheville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blytheville
- Blytheville School DistrictSchool district243FTE
- Arkansas Northeastern CollegeTwo-year college233
- Gosnell School DistrictSchool district207FTE
- Great River Medical CenterGeneral hospital197FTE
- Primetals Technologies - BlythevilleRolling mill machinery and equipment, metalworking, manufacturing131
- Stracener Brothers ConstructionAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building130
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter109
- Heritage Square Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 876 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blytheville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Mississippi County and the Blytheville, AR metro.
Blytheville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blytheville$101,840
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Blytheville 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.
- Blytheville18.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blytheville56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Blytheville14
Zip codes with a Blytheville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blytheville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.