Dardanelle, Arkansas.
Typical home $178,945 (+2.4% in a year). Russellville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$486 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,243 +2%
- $174,702$178,945 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,029 +16%
- $154,916$178,945 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.
- Dardanelle$939
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Dardanelle, AR rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas
Dardanelle is a city of 4,517 people in Yell County. Half its households earn more than $51,040 a year and half less, against $55,934 across Yell County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Yell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yell County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dardanelle is a small city in Yell County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners, though fewer than in many places. Incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers hot, with very little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Tyson Poultry, the Dardanelle School District and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Lake Dardanelle is a lake a short drive away, and Lake Dardanelle State Park and Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas, are also a short drive away. Confederate Mothers Memorial Park is a park in or beside town. For a longer outing, Petit Jean State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,763households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Yell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yell County had 6,405 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dardanelle weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dardanelle
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing839
- Dardanelle School DistrictSchool district346FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters221
- Dardanelle HospitalCritical access hospital104FTE
- TysonBuilding cleaning services, interior55
- Tyson BreedersSupport activities for animal production26
- DardanelleMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,161 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dardanelle’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 Yell County and the Russellville, AR metro.
Dardanelle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dardanelle$178,945
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dardanelle 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.
- Dardanelle23.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dardanelle41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dardanelle10
Zip codes with a Dardanelle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dardanelle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.