Jasper, Arkansas.
Typical home $245,219 (-3.3% in a year). Harrison, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,288 -3%
- $253,507$245,219 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,108 +25%
- $196,111$245,219 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.
- Jasper$1,287
- 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 Jasper, AR fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jasper, Newton County, Arkansas
Jasper is a city of 547 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $30,929 a year and half less, against $48,986 across Newton County. Unemployment in Newton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jasper is a very small city in the Ozark hills, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Household incomes here are well below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a lot over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Newton County, the biggest employers include the Jasper School District, the Deer/Mt. Judea School District and Harps Food Store. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are Hemmed-In-Hollow Falls, a waterfall, and Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome, a tourist attraction. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the Buffalo National River, a protected area, and to the White River.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 1,032 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Deer weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Jasper School DistrictSchool district250FTE
- Deer/mt. Judea School DistrictSchool district199FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 46 people in all across the county; Jasper has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jasper’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 Newton County and the Harrison, AR metro.
Jasper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jasper$245,219
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Jasper listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Jasper13.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jasper34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jasper7
Zip codes with a Jasper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jasper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.