Drasco, Arkansas.
Typical home $266,191 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$791 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,406 +2%
- $260,785$266,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,806 +25%
- $213,385$266,191 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.
- Drasco$1,397
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Drasco, AR rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Drasco, Cleburne County, Arkansas
Drasco, in Cleburne County, had 144 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $96,823 a year and half less, against $55,798 across Cleburne County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cleburne County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cleburne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Drasco is a very small community in Cleburne County, Arkansas, with a young population compared with much of the country. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit at a comfortable level for rural Arkansas.
Work. Residents find work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Cleburne County, the largest workplaces include the Heber Springs School District, Walmart and Mayville Engineering Company. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Several well-known Ozark destinations lie a longer drive away. Greers Ferry Lake is a large reservoir, and Blanchard Springs Caverns is a cave system that draws visitors from across the region. Bridal Veil Falls is a waterfall for those who like a day out among the hills. Winters are cold but short on snow, and summers turn quite hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Cleburne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleburne County had 6,575 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greers Ferry Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleburne County
- Heber Springs School DistrictSchool district255FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters225
- NDX HoldingsDental laboratories220
- Mayville Engineering CompanyFrames and handles, handbag and luggage, metal, manufacturing178
- Concord School DistrictSchool district131FTE
- Bhmc-heber SpringsCritical access hospital129FTE
- Quitman School DistrictSchool district116FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,187 people in all across the county; Drasco has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Drasco’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 Cleburne County.
Drasco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drasco$266,191
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Drasco 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.
- Drasco18.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Drasco30
Zip codes with a Drasco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drasco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.