Gamaliel, Arkansas.
Typical home $247,643 (+2.0% in a year). Mountain Home, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$628 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,752 +2%
- $242,891$247,643 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,599 +12%
- $222,044$247,643 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.
- Gamaliel$1,300
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Gamaliel, AR rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gamaliel, Baxter County, Arkansas
Gamaliel, in Baxter County, had 33 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Baxter County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baxter County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gamaliel is a small community in Baxter County, in the Ozark hills of north-central Arkansas. It is one of the quiet places where neighbors tend to know one another, and the county's rolling land and rivers shape much of daily life. Its setting makes it a place where the outdoors is never far away.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Work in the county has been steady, which suits people who prefer to stay close to home. Winters are colder than in much of the country, while summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall often, so the seasons affect outdoor work.
Things to do. Bennetts River runs in or beside the town, so a walk or a quiet afternoon by the water is close at hand. Bridges Creek is a short drive away and makes a pleasant outing. Bull Shoals Lake, a longer drive away, is a reservoir for boating and fishing, and Bull Shoals Caverns, also a longer drive away, is a tourist attraction worth the trip.
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What people in Baxter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baxter County had 16,448 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baxter County
- Baxter Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,427FTE
- Mountain Home School DistrictSchool district580FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters502
- Danfoss Power Solutions IIHydraulic hoses, rubber or plastics, manufacturing329
- Baxter HealthcarePlastics film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing238
- Arkansas State University-Mountain HomeTwo-year college185
- Cotter School DistrictSchool district160FTE
- Arkansas Boats LLC Bass & Yar-CraftBoat yards153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,531 people in all across the county; Gamaliel has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gamaliel’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 Baxter County and the Mountain Home, AR metro.
Gamaliel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gamaliel$247,643
- 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.
- Gamaliel9
Zip codes with a Gamaliel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gamaliel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.