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Des Arc, Arkansas.

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What it costs per month · Des Arc $1,177/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Arkansas $1,177 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Arkansas$1,177
  • United States$1,922

Living in Des Arc, Prairie County, Arkansas

Des Arc is a city of 1,905 people in Prairie County. Half its households earn more than $30,921 a year and half less, against $51,646 across Prairie County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Prairie County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 8.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 1,905 in the 2020 census
Household income $30,921 the median, give or take $4,464 · Prairie County: $51,646
Unemployment 3.5% Prairie County, August 2026; 4.1% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Des Arc for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Des Arc is a small Arkansas city on Bayou des Arc, in Prairie County. Household incomes here are well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, with the coldest days in January, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is rare, and the year brings a good deal of rain.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, farming and forestry, and the building trades. Across Prairie County, the largest workplaces include the Stuttgart Rice Division of Riceland Foods, the Hazen School District and the Des Arc School District. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, though there were fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a short one.

Things to do. Bayou des Arc runs in or beside town, and Crow Lake, a lake, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge and the Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas, as well as the Little Red River.

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  • 690households
  • 10%of adults have a degree
  • 20%below the poverty line
  • 21 mintypical commute
  • 2%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Manufacturing14%
  • Farming, forestry and mining13%
  • Building trades12%
  • Other services9%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prairie County had 1,437 jobs in 2025, 8.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 49° and 33°; warmest in July, 92° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 49° 33° F M A M J J 92° 73° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 49° and 33°; warmest in July, 92° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 49° 33° F M A M J J 92° 73° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Des Arc weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Prairie County

  1. Stuttgart Rice Division, Riceland FoodsRice, brown, manufacturing339
  2. Hazen School DistrictSchool district109FTE
  3. DES ARC School DistrictSchool district101FTE
  4. White River EnergeticsSmall arms ammunition manufacturing88

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 427 people in all across the county; Des Arc has one of its own. 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

  1. TornadoesVery high
  2. Ice stormsVery high
  3. Inland floodingVery high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively high
  6. HailRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Des Arc’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 Prairie County.

Des Arc home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Des Arc address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Des Arc — 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.