Fordyce, Arkansas.
Typical home $115,120 (+6.5% in a year). Camden, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$157 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,002 +6%
- $108,118$115,120 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,914 -12%
- $131,034$115,120 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.
- Fordyce$604
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Fordyce, AR rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas
Fordyce is a city of 3,396 people in Dallas County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fordyce is a small city and the seat of Dallas County, Arkansas. Residents here tend to be somewhat older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's own median household income, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers are hot and the year is quite wet.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. The largest workplaces in Fordyce include Millcreek of Arkansas, a psychiatric treatment facility for boys, Signode Industrial Group, a maker of paper bags, and Dallas County Medical Center, a critical access hospital. Hardly anyone works from home, and unemployment across Dallas County has eased a little from a year earlier.
Things to do. Marks' Mills Battleground State Park, an archaeological site tied to a Civil War battle, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Little Missouri River and to Fort Southerland, an old fort site. These are quiet places that suit a slow day out and an interest in the history of the area.
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- 1,317households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 2,657 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fordyce weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fordyce
- Millcreek of Arkansas Main CampusPRTF BoysPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals324
- Signode Industrial GroupBags, uncoated paper, made from purchased paper156
- DcmcHospitals, general medical and surgical144
- Dallas County Medical CenterCritical access hospital82FTE
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 652 people in all. Hospitals come 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 windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fordyce’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 Dallas County and the Camden, AR metro.
Fordyce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fordyce$115,120
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fordyce listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Fordyce22.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fordyce21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Fordyce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fordyce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.