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Evening Shade, Arkansas.

. Batesville, AR metro.

What it costs per month · Evening Shade $1,177/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Arkansas $1,177 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Arkansas$1,177
  • United States$1,922

Living in Evening Shade, Sharp County, Arkansas

Evening Shade is a city of 420 people in Sharp County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Sharp County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sharp County work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 420 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Evening Shade for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.9% Sharp County, August 2026; 5.0% a year before
Homes 87% lived in by their owners; 13% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Evening Shade is a very small city in Sharp County, Arkansas, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the county run on the modest side. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Sharp County, some of the largest workplaces are the Highland School District, Walmart and the Cave City School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.

Things to do. Most of the outdoor places near Evening Shade are a longer drive away. Lake Charles State Park is a protected area, and Mammoth Spring State Park is another. The South Fork Spring River offers time on the water, and Powhatan Historic State Park is a museum for anyone who likes local history.

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  • 8%of adults have a degree

What people in Sharp County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care29%
  • Building trades12%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities7%
  • Other services7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sharp County had 3,950 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 45° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 45° 24° F M A M J J 89° 67° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 45° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 45° 24° F M A M J J 89° 67° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evening Shade Nne weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Sharp County

  1. Highland School DistrictSchool district289FTE
  2. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters245
  3. Cave City School DistrictSchool district232FTE
  4. Emerson Professional Tools MFGPower transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers142
  5. UniFirst CAVE CITY MAT MANUFIndustrial launderer102
  6. Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery50
  7. North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Ash FlatDistribution of electric power25
  8. Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores23

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 587 people in all across the county; Evening Shade has none 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. TornadoesVery high
  3. Strong windRelatively high
  4. Inland floodingRelatively high
  5. Cold wavesRelatively high
  6. Winter weatherRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Evening Shade’s 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 Sharp County and the Batesville, AR metro.

Evening Shade home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 10 15 2024 2025 2026 Evening Shade 14
5 10 15 2024 2025 2026
  • Evening Shade14

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Zip codes with a Evening Shade address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Evening Shade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.