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Fox, Arkansas.

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What it costs per month · Fox $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 Fox, Stone County, Arkansas

Fox, in Stone County, had 237 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Stone County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stone County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 237 in the 2020 census; median age 33.6
Household income Too few homes in Fox for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.4% Stone County, August 2026; 6.0% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Fox for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fox is a very small community in Stone County, Arkansas, with a population that stays well below that of most towns. Its residents are younger on average than in many parts of the country, so it is not a place made up mainly of retirees. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.

Work. Residents of Fox work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Stone County, the biggest workplaces include the Mountain View School District, Stone County Medical Center and Walmart. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home. Household incomes in the county run lower than in much of the country, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.

Things to do. The Ozark hills around Fox offer plenty of outdoor options, though all of the best known places are a longer drive away. Blanchard Springs Caverns is a well-known tourist attraction, and Greers Ferry Lake is a large reservoir for boating and fishing. The Ozark Folk Center is a museum devoted to the region's traditional crafts and music.

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  • 16 mintypical commute
  • 4%work from home

What people in Stone County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Building trades12%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment10%
  • Shops (retail)9%
  • Banks, insurance and property7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stone County had 2,632 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 48° and 28°; warmest in July, 91° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 48° 28° F M A M J J 91° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 48° and 28°; warmest in July, 91° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 48° 28° F M A M J J 91° 70° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 5 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain View weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Stone County

  1. Mountain View School DistrictSchool district314FTE
  2. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
  3. Stone County Medical CenterCritical access hospital176FTE
  4. Blossoms at Mountain ViewHomes for the elderly with nursing care68
  5. Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery53
  6. Lignetics of Mountain ViewPressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing37
  7. Friendship Community Care623210 residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities25

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 534 people in all across the county; Fox has none of its own. 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. TornadoesVery high
  3. LightningVery high
  4. Inland floodingVery high
  5. Strong windRelatively 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 Fox’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 Stone County.

Fox 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.

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Zip codes with a Fox address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fox — 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.