Garfield, Arkansas.
Typical home $458,087 (+3.1% in a year). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,497 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,924 +3%
- $444,163$458,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $122,192 +36%
- $335,895$458,087 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.
- Garfield$2,404
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Garfield, AR rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garfield, Benton County, Arkansas
Garfield is a town of 593 people in Benton County. Half its households earn more than $74,583 a year and half less, against $93,506 across Benton County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Benton County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton County work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garfield is a very small town in Benton County, Arkansas, with a population well below what most towns count. Household incomes here run below the county's, and few residents fall below the poverty line. Typical home values are high for a town this size, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Benton County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, the Bentonville School District and the Rogers School District. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs, while the typical commute is a fairly long one and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Pea Ridge National Military Park, a Civil War battlefield site, is a short drive away, as is Beaver Lake, a large reservoir good for time on the water. Dinosaur World, an amusement park, is also a short drive. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a longer drive. Winters are cold and summers warm, so spring and fall suit outdoor outings.
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- 209households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 150,665 jobs in 2025, 4.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seligman weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- WalmartCommercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance3,811
- Bentonville School DistrictSchool district2,630FTE
- Lowell AR - JB Hunt Corporate B & C2,458
- America's Car-MartUsed car dealers2,324
- Rogers School DistrictSchool district2,288FTE
- Simmons Foods1,571
- McKee Foods Corporation and Affiliates, Gentry ArkansasDoughnuts made in commercial bakeries1,511
- Mercy Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,398FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 227 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 42,355 people in all across the county; Garfield 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of GarfieldRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of GarfieldRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Benton County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Garfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garfield$458,087
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Garfield listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Garfield15.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Garfield43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Garfield6
Zip codes with a Garfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.