Lamar, Arkansas.
Typical home $194,957 (+5.8% in a year). Russellville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,658 +6%
- $184,300$194,957 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,389 +15%
- $169,568$194,957 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.
- Lamar$1,023
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Lamar, AR rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lamar, Johnson County, Arkansas
Lamar is a city of 1,719 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $50,568 a year and half less, against $45,995 across Johnson County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lamar is a small Arkansas city in Johnson County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with only a dusting of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and retail close behind. Across Johnson County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Poultry, Walmart and the Clarksville School District. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Big Piney Creek, a river, is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the area's waters. A longer drive brings you to Lake Dardanelle, a lake, and to Mount Magazine State Park, a protected area in the hills.
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- 633households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 7,860 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarksville 2N weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,253
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage839
- Clarksville School DistrictSchool district395FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Johnson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital273FTE
- Lamar School DistrictSchool district209FTE
- University of the OzarksUniversity or college195
- RathGibsonTube made from purchased iron or steel110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,646 people in all across the county; Lamar has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lamar’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 Johnson County and the Russellville, AR metro.
Lamar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lamar$194,957
- 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.
- Lamar14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lamar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lamar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.