Diaz, Arkansas.
Typical home $109,856 (-8.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $22 (-4%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $10,669 -9%
- $120,525$109,856 since Sep 2025
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.
- Diaz$577
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Diaz, AR fell 8.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Diaz, Jackson County, Arkansas
Diaz is a city of 1,224 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $49,120 a year and half less, against $44,218 across Jackson County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Diaz is a small Arkansas city in Jackson County, home to a close-knit community of residents. Household incomes here run above the county's, though a notable share of residents live below the poverty line, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cool with little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include Shearer's Foods, a potato chip maker, Arkansas Steel Associates, which rolls purchased steel, and Arkansas State University-Newport, a two-year college. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Jacksonport State Park, which holds a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Charles State Park, a protected area, and to the Bayou De View and the Strawberry River.
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- 576households
- 25%below the poverty line
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,084 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Shearer's Foods - NPTPotato chips manufacturing296
- Arkansas Steel AssociatesHot-rolling purchased steel268
- Arkansas State University-NewportTwo-year college250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Arauco MalvernMdf manufacturing201
- Newport School DistrictSchool district201FTE
- Unity Health - NewportCritical access hospital180FTE
- Granges America'sFoil, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum145
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,688 people in all across the county; Diaz has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Diaz’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Jackson County.
Diaz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Diaz$109,856
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Diaz5
Zip codes with a Diaz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Diaz — 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.