Elizabeth, Arkansas.
Typical home $248,467 (-10.5% in a year). Mountain Home, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$394 (+43%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $29,012 -10%
- $277,479$248,467 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $38,876 -14%
- $287,343$248,467 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.
- Elizabeth$1,304
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Elizabeth, AR fell 10.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elizabeth, Fulton County, Arkansas
The Census does not count Elizabeth on its own, so the figures here are Fulton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,241 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Fulton County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fulton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elizabeth is a small town in Fulton County, in the Ozark hills of north-central Arkansas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged or older. Winters are colder than in much of the South, summers are hot, and the area is wet, with snow in some winters and rain or melted snow through much of the year.
Work. Unemployment across Fulton County has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Fewer adults hold a college degree than the national average, and most people drive to work, with few working from home.
Things to do. Norfork National Fish Hatchery is a park a short drive away, and the Bennetts River, also a short drive away, is a river that suits a quiet afternoon outdoors. Blanchard Springs Caverns, one of the best known tourist attractions nearby, is a longer drive away.
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- 4,757households
- 47.6median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Fulton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 1,796 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain Home Nnw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fulton County
- Salem School DistrictSchool district145FTE
- Fulton County HospitalCritical access hospital144FTE
- Mammoth Spring School DistrictSchool district130FTE
- Viola School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities84
- North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - SalemDistribution of electric power76
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 361 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Fulton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Fulton County and the Mountain Home, AR metro.
Elizabeth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elizabeth$248,467
- 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.
- Elizabeth11
Zip codes with a Elizabeth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elizabeth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.