Dover, Arkansas.
Typical home $217,245 (+1.5% in a year). Russellville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$572 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,123 +1%
- $214,122$217,245 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,014 +20%
- $181,231$217,245 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.
- Dover$1,140
- 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 Dover, AR rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Pope County, Arkansas
Dover is a city of 1,337 people in Pope County. Half its households earn more than $32,332 a year and half less, against $57,344 across Pope County. Unemployment in Pope County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pope 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a small city in Pope County, Arkansas, home to a modest community of residents. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Pope County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, a frozen food manufacturer, Arkansas Tech University, and the Russellville School District. Unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs has stayed close to flat.
Things to do. Lake Dardanelle is a short drive away, and Lake Dardanelle State Park sits close by as well, giving people room for time on the water. Petit Jean State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away for those who want a day out in the hills. Confederate Mothers Memorial Park is another short drive away for a quiet stop.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Pope County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 26,837 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Russellville Municipal Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing1,311
- Arkansas Tech UniversityUniversity or college937
- Russellville School DistrictSchool district877FTE
- Entergy OperationsPower generation, nuclear electric815
- Roadteam StaffingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload726
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing688
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters457
- St. Marys Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital408FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,907 people in all across the county; Dover has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Dover’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 Pope County and the Russellville, AR metro.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$217,245
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dover 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.
- Dover28.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover7
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.