Earle, Arkansas.
Typical home $67,997 (+3.3% in a year). Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$86 (+32%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,148 +3%
- $65,849$67,997 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,367 -18%
- $83,363$67,997 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.
- Earle$357
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Earle, AR rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Earle, Crittenden County, Arkansas
Earle is a city of 1,831 people in Crittenden County. Unemployment in Crittenden County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 10.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crittenden County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Earle is a small city in Crittenden County, in the eastern Arkansas Delta. Homes here cost far less than the national norm, and household incomes in the county run below the national figure, so day-to-day life is shaped by modest means and long ties between neighbors. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow come in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops and manufacturing. Across Crittenden County, the largest workplaces include Hino Motors Manufacturing Arkansas, the West Memphis School District and Walmart. Many people travel a good distance to work, and unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Parkin Archeological State Park, an archaeological site a short drive away. Memphis lies a longer drive off and offers the Blues Hall of Fame, a museum, and the National Civil Rights Museum. The Memphis Zoo is another longer drive away for a day out.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Crittenden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crittenden County had 17,907 jobs in 2025, 10.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Memphis Municipal Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crittenden County
- Hino Motors Manufacturing ArkansasAxle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,024
- Delaware North CompaniesOther gambling industries868
- Schneider704
- West Memphis School DistrictSchool district636FTE
- Marion School DistrictSchool district540FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters377
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors365
- West Memphis AR TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air353
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,636 people in all across the county; Earle has one of its own. 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 stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Earle’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 Crittenden County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
Earle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Earle$67,997
- 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.
Zip codes with a Earle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Earle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.