Dierks, Arkansas.
Typical home $138,800 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$40 (+6%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $2,809 +2%
- $135,991$138,800 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.
- Dierks$729
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dierks, AR rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dierks, Howard County, Arkansas
Dierks is a city of 916 people in Howard County. Unemployment in Howard County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Howard 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dierks is a very small city in Howard County, Arkansas, where homes are modest in price and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow in most years, and summers get properly hot. Rain falls through the year, so the surroundings stay green.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, and in shops. Weyerhaeuser, the lumber company, the Dierks School District and Oasis Health Care are among the largest workplaces in town. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Across Howard County, jobs were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment has eased somewhat since a year ago.
Things to do. Dierks Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and the closest place for time on the water. Farther afield, Crater of Diamonds State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Ouachita National Forest is another, with wooded country to explore. Each of these is a longer outing rather than an afternoon trip.
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- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Howard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howard County had 5,732 jobs in 2025, 6.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashville weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dierks
- WeyerhaeuserLumber238
- Dierks School DistrictSchool district115FTE
- Oasis Health CareNursing homes32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 270 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Dierks’ 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 Howard County.
Dierks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dierks$138,800
- 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.
- Dierks8
Zip codes with a Dierks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dierks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.