Hamburg, Arkansas.
Typical home $101,339 (+5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$202 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,460 +6%
- $95,880$101,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,760 -3%
- $104,100$101,339 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.
- Hamburg$532
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hamburg, AR rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas
Hamburg is a city of 2,536 people in Ashley County. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Ashley County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamburg is a small city in southeast Arkansas and the seat of Ashley County. It is a young town for its size, with a typical age below what you find across much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes cost less than in most of the country, and across Ashley County household incomes run below the national picture. Relatively few adults here hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking, insurance and property, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many people. Across Ashley County, the largest workplaces include Crossett Paper, the Hamburg School District and Ashley County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year ago, and the county has added jobs. Most people travel to work, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Crossroads Fire Tower, a tourist attraction a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Chemin-A-Haut State Park, a protected area, and to Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, while summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 1,007households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashley County had 6,040 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crossett Sse weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashley County
- Crossett Paper499
- Hamburg School DistrictSchool district272FTE
- Crossett School DistrictSchool district232FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Ashley County Medical CenterCritical access hospital223FTE
- Primoris Services CompanyPower supplies, regulated and unregulated, manufacturing166
- Dedicated LogisticsTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload79
- Timber Producers Selma Sawmill DivisionSawmills53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,349 people in all across the county; Hamburg has two 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 stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamburg’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 Ashley County.
Hamburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamburg$101,339
- 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.
- Hamburg10
Zip codes with a Hamburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.