El Paso, Arkansas.
Typical home $268,286 (+2.2% in a year). Searcy, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,803 +2%
- $262,483$268,286 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,602 +24%
- $216,684$268,286 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.
- El Paso$1,408
- 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 El Paso, AR rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in El Paso, White County, Arkansas
El Paso, in White County, had 267 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in White County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in White County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. El Paso is a very small community in White County, Arkansas, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and the poverty rate is nil. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across White County, the largest workplaces include White County Medical Center, Harding University and the Searcy School District. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good stretch of the day on the road.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are in and around Little Rock, a longer drive away. The Clinton Presidential Center is a museum, and Pinnacle Mountain State Park is a protected area for those who prefer to be outdoors. Lake Conway, also a longer drive away, is a lake.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
What people in White County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. White County had 26,591 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cabot weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White County
- White County Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,192FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,007
- Harding UniversityUniversity or college960
- Bryce-Searcy LocationPrinting, flexographic640
- Land O'Frost - SearcyMeat processed from carcasses591
- Searcy School DistrictSchool district582FTE
- Beebe School DistrictSchool district515FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters483
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,744 people in all across the county; El Paso has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in El Paso’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 White County and the Searcy, AR metro.
El Paso home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- El Paso$268,286
- 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.
- El Paso9
Zip codes with a El Paso address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls El Paso — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.