Camden, Arkansas.
Typical home $110,431 (+3.2% in a year). Camden, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$218 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,438 +3%
- $106,993$110,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,727 -2%
- $113,158$110,431 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.
- Camden$580
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Camden, AR rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas
Camden is a city of 10,612 people in Ouachita County. Half its households earn more than $49,361 a year and half less, against $49,268 across Ouachita County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Ouachita County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a small city in Ouachita County, in the south of Arkansas. Incomes here are about level with the county's, and a fair number of households live below the poverty line. A majority of homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with very little snow, while summers are hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Camden are the Camden Fairview School District, Ouachita County Medical Center and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Most people reach work in a short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. Fort Southerland and Fort Lookout, both historic forts, lie in or beside town, as does Oakland Farm, a tourist attraction. A longer drive brings you to White Oak Lake State Park, a reservoir with a state park along its shore, and to Poison Springs Battleground State Park, an archaeological site that records an episode of the Civil War.
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- 4,086households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ouachita County had 6,807 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° 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 Camden weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden
- Camden Fairview School DistrictSchool district430FTE
- Ouachita County Medical CenterGeneral hospital328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- InDemand Industrial Services CorporateConstruction258
- Raytheon_East Camden_AR122
- RHC OperationsSkilled nursing facilities116
- B&M Painting coAnodizing metals and metal products for the trade101
- CamdenMail and parcel delivery36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 900 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camden’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 Ouachita County and the Camden, AR metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$110,431
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Camden 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.
- Camden12.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camden109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camden14
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.