Buckner, Arkansas.
Typical home $90,174 (+10.8% in a year). Hope, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$222 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,798 +11%
- $81,377$90,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,400 +8%
- $83,774$90,174 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.
- Buckner$473
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Buckner, AR rose 10.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckner, Lafayette County, Arkansas
Buckner is a city of 165 people in Lafayette County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Lafayette County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckner is a very small city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, in the southwest corner of the state. Nearly everyone here owns the home they live in, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and forestry, and shops. Across Lafayette County, the largest workplaces include the Lafayette County School District, Oasis Health Care and Messer North America. Household incomes in the county are on the low side, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year, though unemployment has eased since the year before. Most people work outside the home, with a commute that is fairly short.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive away. Logoly State Park, another protected area, and White Oak Lake State Park, a reservoir, are also a longer drive away. Both suit a day out of doors, and Little River is farther afield as well.
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- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Lafayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette County had 1,047 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewisville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette County
- Lafayette County School DistrictSchool district143FTE
- Oasis Health CareNursing homes52
- Messer North AmericaIndustrial gases manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 80 people in all across the county; Buckner 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of BucknerRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckner’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 Lafayette County and the Hope, AR metro.
Buckner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckner$90,174
- 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.
Zip codes with a Buckner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.