Bonanza, Arkansas.
. Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Living in Bonanza, Sebastian County, Arkansas
Bonanza is a city of 587 people in Sebastian County. Half its households earn more than $63,631 a year and half less, against $57,790 across Sebastian County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sebastian County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sebastian County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bonanza is a very small city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run above the county's, though a fair number of residents still live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate drive.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Sebastian County, the biggest employers include the Fort Smith School District, Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and Baptist Health Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady.
Things to do. The Ozark–St. Francis National Forest is a protected area a short drive away, good for time outdoors. Farther afield, Fort Smith National Historic Site is another protected area, and Spiro Mounds is an archaeological site. Winters are cool with little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Sebastian County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sebastian County had 67,700 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Smith Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sebastian County
- Fort Smith School DistrictSchool district2,424FTE
- Mercy Hospital Fort SmithGeneral hospital1,631FTE
- Baptist Health Medical Center - FSGeneral hospital1,332FTE
- ABBMotors, electric, manufacturing1,200
- ArcBestTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload745
- Mars PetcareDog and cat food, manufacturing650
- University of Arkansas-Fort SmithUniversity or college640
- Gerdau Fort Smith MillSteel mills613
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 159 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,014 people in all across the county; Bonanza has none 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Bonanza’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 Sebastian County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Bonanza home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Bonanza address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bonanza — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.