Corning, Arkansas.
Typical home $102,869 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$257 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,399 +4%
- $98,469$102,869 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,308 +20%
- $85,561$102,869 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.
- Corning$540
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Corning, AR rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corning, Clay County, Arkansas
Corning is a city of 3,227 people in Clay County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corning is a small city in Clay County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home value is modest. Residents are somewhat older than across the country as a whole, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also employing a good share. The largest workplaces in Corning include the Corning School District, Harps Food Stores and Eagle Health Systems, a skilled nursing provider. Across Clay County, jobs have slipped in the past year and unemployment has eased a little, and a typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Cane Creek, a river, is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby waters. Crowley's Ridge State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Hydro Adventures, an amusement park, is also a longer drive. The Current River is among the better known waterways in the area, though it too lies a longer drive from town.
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- 1,353households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 3,023 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 5 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corning weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Corning
- Corning School DistrictSchool district149FTE
- Harps Food StoresRetail grocery76
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities52
- Edward L Baker Enterprises INC Corning FacilityBox shook manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 149 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Corning’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 Clay County.
Corning home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corning$102,869
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Corning 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.
- Corning20.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Corning22
Zip codes with a Corning address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corning — 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.