Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Typical home $171,934 (+5.5% in a year), asking rent $1,200 (+3.1%). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$482 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,979 +6%
- $162,954$171,934 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,782 +24%
- $139,152$171,934 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.
- Jacksonville$902
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Jacksonville, AR rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Jacksonville, AR rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Jacksonville runs $4/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $298 in Sep 2021.
That is $1,196 a month against $1,200 rent: a $902 mortgage payment, plus $110 property tax and $184 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Jacksonville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,196
- Renting$1,200
- Mortgage only$902
Property tax · $110/mo 0.76% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Pulaski County, AR
Insurance & upkeep · $184/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Jacksonville, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Jacksonville is a city of 29,477 people in Pulaski County. Half its households earn more than $49,666 a year and half less, against $62,873 across Pulaski County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Jacksonville was 4.4% in August 2026, and Pulaski County had 0.4% 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. Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County with a young population for the county, and a good number of residents are renting rather than owning. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehouses, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. The biggest workplaces in town include the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District, Walmart and Arkansas Lighthouse Charter Schools. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Bayou Meto Battlefield, an archaeological site, sits in or beside town. A longer drive away are the Little Rock Zoo and Pinnacle Mountain State Park, a protected area, along with museums such as the Clinton Presidential Center.
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- 11,107households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pulaski County had 262,676 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 4 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Rock weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jacksonville
- Jacksonville North Pulaski School DistrictSchool district692FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- Arkansas Lighthouse Charter SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter123
- Kroger Delta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores69
- Safeway Van LinesDelivery service60
- Crosby - Little RockMachine shops51
- Unity Health - JacksonvilleGeneral hospital50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 951 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of JacksonvilleRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of JacksonvilleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jacksonville’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 Pulaski County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Jacksonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacksonville$171,934
- 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 Jacksonville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Jacksonville26.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jacksonville182
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jacksonville43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Jacksonville$175,244
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Jacksonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacksonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.