Elaine, Arkansas.
Typical home $62,482 (-4.8% in a year). Helena-West Helena, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$15 (+5%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $3,116 -5%
- $65,597$62,482 since Sep 2025
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.
- Elaine$328
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Elaine, AR fell 4.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas
Elaine is a city of 509 people in Phillips County. Unemployment in Phillips County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Phillips 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elaine is a very small city in the Arkansas Delta, in Phillips County. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and across Phillips County household incomes are low. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents who work are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Phillips County, some of the largest workplaces are Kipp Delta Public Schools, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is higher than in much of the country, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are mild and short, with little snow, and summers are hot and wet through much of the year. For a day out, the Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Delta Cultural Center is a museum a longer drive away. The St. Francis River is also a longer drive away, for time near the water.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Phillips County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Phillips County had 4,333 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Charles weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Phillips County
- Kipp Delta Public SchoolsSchool district285FTE
- Phillips Community College of the University of ArkansasTwo-year college270
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- Helena / West Helena School DistrictSchool district194FTE
- Barton School DistrictSchool district98FTE
- ArxadaOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing75
- United InitiatorsPeroxides, organic, manufacturing59
- Helena Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital56FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 534 people in all across the county; Elaine has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elaine’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 Phillips County and the Helena-West Helena, AR metro.
Elaine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elaine$62,482
- 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 Elaine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elaine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.