Hector, Arkansas.
Typical home $190,404 (+1.5% in a year). Russellville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$516 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,774 +1%
- $187,630$190,404 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,329 +17%
- $163,076$190,404 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.
- Hector$999
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Hector, AR rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hector, Pope County, Arkansas
Hector is a town of 411 people in Pope County. Unemployment in Pope County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pope County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hector is a very small town in Pope County, Arkansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than those in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and a little melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Pope County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, Arkansas Tech University and Entergy Operations. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Petit Jean State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Dardanelle is a lake for time on the water, also a longer drive off. Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area a longer drive away, suits those who like to watch birds and wildlife.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Pope County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 26,837 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Russellville Municipal Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing1,311
- Arkansas Tech UniversityUniversity or college937
- Russellville School DistrictSchool district877FTE
- Entergy OperationsPower generation, nuclear electric815
- Roadteam StaffingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload726
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing688
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters457
- St. Marys Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital408FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,907 people in all across the county; Hector has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- 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 Hector’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 Pope County and the Russellville, AR metro.
Hector home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hector$190,404
- 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.
- Hector9
Zip codes with a Hector address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hector — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.