Leachville, Arkansas.
. Blytheville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Living in Leachville, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Leachville is a city of 2,039 people in Mississippi County. Unemployment in Mississippi County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mississippi County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leachville is a small city in Mississippi County, in the flat farm country of northeast Arkansas. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents of Leachville work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Mississippi County, the largest workplaces include Nucor Steel Arkansas, Maverick Tube and American Greetings. Jobs across the county slipped last year, and unemployment there is lower now than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Herman Davis State Park are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Crowley's Ridge State Park, another protected area, and to the Hampson Archeological Museum State Park, a museum devoted to the region's earliest peoples.
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- 761households
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Mississippi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mississippi County had 19,773 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paragould 1S weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mississippi County
- Nucor Steel ArkansasSheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills1,040
- Maverick TubePipe made from purchased iron or steel553
- American GreetingsGreeting card publishers and printing combined447
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- NibcoFoundries, iron261
- Blytheville School DistrictSchool district243FTE
- Arkansas Northeastern CollegeTwo-year college233
- Rivercrest School DistrictSchool district223FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,379 people in all across the county; Leachville has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Leachville’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 Mississippi County and the Blytheville, AR metro.
Leachville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leachville8
Zip codes with a Leachville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leachville — 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.