Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Typical home $379,367 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,581 (+2.5%). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,152 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,042 +4%
- $366,326$379,367 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,484 +33%
- $284,883$379,367 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.
- Fayetteville$1,991
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Fayetteville, AR rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fayetteville, AR rose 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fayetteville runs $982/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,010 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,563 a month against $1,581 rent: a $1,991 mortgage payment, plus $166 property tax and $406 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fayetteville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,563
- Renting$1,581
- Mortgage only$1,991
Property tax · $166/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Washington County, AR
Insurance & upkeep · $406/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Fayetteville is a city of 93,949 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $62,695 a year and half less, against $70,639 across Washington County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Fayetteville was 3.1% in August 2026, and Washington County had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Fayetteville is a college city in the Ozarks, and it feels like one: the population is young, with a median age well below what most of the country sees. Renters outnumber owners, incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the county, which is common in a town with so many students. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work takes less time than for most American commuters. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more residents than any other field, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then shops and professional and business services. The University of Arkansas is the town's largest workplace, with Washington Regional Medical Center and the Fayetteville School District also among the biggest employers. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and across Washington County the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Much of the town's social life centers on the University of Arkansas, and Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, a stadium in or beside town, is the best known gathering place. A short drive away, the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks offers a quieter afternoon, and the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History covers the region's past. For a longer outing, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 41,025households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 122,001 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville Experiment Station weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayetteville
- University of ArkansasUniversity or college5,766
- Washington Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,889FTE
- Fayetteville School DistrictSchool district1,669FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,545
- Tyson Mexican OriginalTortilla manufacturing743
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing611
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters519
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters512
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,525 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fayetteville’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 Washington County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Fayetteville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fayetteville$379,367
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fayetteville listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Fayetteville31.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fayetteville591
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fayetteville152
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fayetteville$387,444
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Fayetteville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fayetteville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fayetteville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72701 | Fayetteville | 49,835 | $1,627 | $393,132 |
| 72703 | Fayetteville | 35,896 | $1,449 | $407,209 |
| 72704 | Fayetteville | 32,497 | $1,653 | $362,480 |