Greenbrier, Arkansas.
Typical home $284,363 (+3.2% in a year), asking rent $1,421 . Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,783 +3%
- $275,580$284,363 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,714 +28%
- $222,649$284,363 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.
- Greenbrier$1,493
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Greenbrier, AR rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenbrier, Faulkner County, Arkansas
Greenbrier is a city of 5,707 people in Faulkner County. Half its households earn more than $57,214 a year and half less, against $67,289 across Faulkner County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Faulkner County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenbrier is a small city in Faulkner County where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is younger than in much of the country. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, though the typical home here is still priced well above what many longtime residents once paid. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in government. Among the largest workplaces in Greenbrier are the Greenbrier School District and Harps Food Store. Jobs across Faulkner County grew slightly last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier; a typical commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Woolly Hollow State Park, a protected area, and the Century Flyer, a tourist attraction, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Conway is a lake a longer drive away, and Pinnacle Mountain State Park is a protected area also a longer drive away.
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- 2,419households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Faulkner County had 45,993 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenbrier weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenbrier
- Greenbrier School DistrictSchool district490FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery107
- GreenbrierMail and parcel delivery31
- WilcorpFooting and foundation concrete contractors30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 168 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenbrier’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 Faulkner County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Greenbrier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenbrier$284,363
- 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 4 Greenbrier 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.
- Greenbrier26.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenbrier131
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenbrier29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Greenbrier$303,625
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Greenbrier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenbrier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.