Hackett, Arkansas.
Typical home $205,575 (+7.6% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$531 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,479 +8%
- $191,097$205,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,660 +16%
- $176,915$205,575 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.
- Hackett$1,079
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Hackett, AR rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hackett, Sebastian County, Arkansas
Hackett is a city of 784 people in Sebastian County. Unemployment in Sebastian County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hackett is a very small city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here cost somewhat more than you might guess for a town this size, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow, while summers run hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Sebastian County, the largest workplaces include the Fort Smith School District, Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and ABB. Jobs in the county grew only slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. A fair number of people work from home, and the usual trip to work is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Ozark–St. Francis National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time outdoors. Farther afield, Fort Smith National Historic Site preserves the region's frontier history, and Lake Wister is a reservoir for time on the water. Both are a longer drive.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sebastian County had 67,700 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Smith Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sebastian County
- Fort Smith School DistrictSchool district2,424FTE
- Mercy Hospital Fort SmithGeneral hospital1,631FTE
- Baptist Health Medical Center - FSGeneral hospital1,332FTE
- ABBMotors, electric, manufacturing1,200
- ArcBestTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload745
- Mars PetcareDog and cat food, manufacturing650
- University of Arkansas-Fort SmithUniversity or college640
- Gerdau Fort Smith MillSteel mills613
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 159 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,014 people in all across the county; Hackett has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Hackett’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 Sebastian County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Hackett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hackett$205,575
- 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.
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.
- Hackett18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hackett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hackett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.