Dumas, Arkansas.
Typical home $104,162 (+1.2% in a year). Pine Bluff, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$220 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,197 +1%
- $102,965$104,162 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,831 +2%
- $102,332$104,162 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.
- Dumas$547
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dumas, AR rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Dumas, Lincoln County, Arkansas
Dumas is a city of 4,001 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $34,787 a year and half less, against $51,778 across Lincoln County; 34% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dumas is a small city in the Arkansas Delta, in Lincoln County. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and many adults have not finished a four-year degree. Incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Homes are lived in by their owners about as often as they are rented, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and frost likely on many nights, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year is wet.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in farming. The largest workplaces in Dumas include the Dumas School District, Delta Memorial Hospital, which is a critical access hospital, and Central Wire, a maker of barbed and twisted wire. Unemployment in Lincoln County is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Dumas sits in a part of Arkansas with a long history, and several of the best-known places nearby are a longer drive away. Arkansas Post is an archaeological site, Fort Carlos III is a fort, and the Japanese American Internment Museum is a museum. For time outdoors, Cane Creek State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,727households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,510 jobs in 2025, 5.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dumas weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dumas
- Dumas School DistrictSchool district217FTE
- Delta Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
- Central Wire Inc. DumasBarbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants47
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 75 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dumas’ 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 Lincoln County and the Pine Bluff, AR metro.
Dumas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dumas$104,162
- 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.
- Dumas11
Zip codes with a Dumas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dumas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.