Calico Rock, Arkansas.
Typical home $188,700 (+2.8% in a year). Mountain Home, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,101 +3%
- $183,599$188,700 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,454 +16%
- $162,246$188,700 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.
- Calico Rock$990
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Calico Rock, AR rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calico Rock, Izard County, Arkansas
Calico Rock is a city of 888 people in Izard County. Unemployment in Izard County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Izard 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calico Rock is a very small town in the Ozark hills of Arkansas, in Izard County. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are warm, with only a little snow in most years and a good deal of rain through the seasons.
Work. Across the town, people work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Izard County, the largest workplaces include the Melbourne School District, Ozarka College and the Izard County Consolidated School District. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. North Sylamore Creek is a river a short drive away, and the Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District, a tourist attraction, is also a short drive off. Blanchard Springs Caverns, one of the better known attractions in the area, is a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Izard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Izard County had 2,949 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 7 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calico Rock Wsw weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Izard County
- Melbourne School DistrictSchool district171FTE
- Ozarka CollegeTwo-year college135
- Izard County Consolidated School DistrictSchool district107FTE
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities78
- Beasley Flooring Products MelbourneWood flooring manufacturing47
- AirReady MRO ServicesAircraft rebuilding46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 171 people in all across the county; Calico Rock has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calico Rock’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 Izard County and the Mountain Home, AR metro.
Calico Rock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calico Rock$188,700
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Calico Rock listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Calico Rock27.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Calico Rock34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Calico Rock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calico Rock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.