Kingston, Arkansas.
Typical home $272,910 (+2.3% in a year). Harrison, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$844 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,160 +2%
- $266,750$272,910 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,088 +17%
- $232,822$272,910 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.
- Kingston$1,432
- 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 Kingston, AR rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingston, Newton County, Arkansas
Kingston, in Newton County, had 97 people in the 2020 census. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingston is a very small community in Newton County, in the Ozark hills of northwest Arkansas, where people tend to know one another. Its homes sit among wooded ridges and creeks, and the county's rural character shapes daily life. Typical home values here are listed in the figures beside this text.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Newton County, the number of jobs grew a little over the latest year. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with August the warmest, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Things to do. Wharton Creek, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet afternoon outdoors. Hemmed-In-Hollow Falls, a waterfall, and Dogpatch USA, an amusement park, are both a longer drive away, so they make a good day trip.
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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 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingston 2S weather station, 3 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; Kingston 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingston’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.
Kingston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingston$272,910
- 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.
- Kingston10
Zip codes with a Kingston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.