Centerton, Arkansas.
Typical home $345,839 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,565 (-0.1%). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,085 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,687 -0%
- $347,526$345,839 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,860 +32%
- $261,979$345,839 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.
- Centerton$1,815
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Centerton, AR fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Centerton, AR fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Centerton runs $783/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $809 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,348 a month against $1,565 rent: a $1,815 mortgage payment, plus $162 property tax and $370 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Centerton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,348
- Renting$1,565
- Mortgage only$1,815
Property tax · $162/mo 0.56% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Benton County, AR
Insurance & upkeep · $370/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Centerton, Benton County, Arkansas
Centerton is a city of 17,792 people in Benton County. Half its households earn more than $115,713 a year and half less, against $93,506 across Benton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Centerton was 2.5% in August 2026, and Benton County had 4.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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. Centerton is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, and its residents are young for a town of its size, with ages running younger than in most places, and incomes above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are fairly cold and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Walmart, Apple Creek Health and Rehab and Harp's Food Store are among the largest workplaces in Centerton. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a short drive away, as is The Museum of Native American History. Lake Ann, a lake, is also a short drive away, and Pea Ridge National Military Park is a longer drive away.
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- 7,858households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 150,665 jobs in 2025, 4.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville Northwest Ar Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Centerton
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores174
- Apple Creek Health and RehabSkilled nursing facilities109
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery54
- Saving GraceTransitional living for young women ages 18_2420
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 357 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of CentertonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Centerton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Benton County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Centerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Centerton$345,839
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Centerton 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.
- Centerton37.82%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Centerton157
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Centerton34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Centerton$338,994
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Centerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Centerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.