Lead Hill, Arkansas.
. Harrison, 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 Lead Hill, Boone County, Arkansas
Lead Hill is a town of 274 people in Boone County. Unemployment in Boone County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lead Hill is a very small town in Boone County, Arkansas, where people tend to know one another and the pace is quiet. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and transport close behind. Across Boone County, the largest workplaces include North Arkansas Regional Medical CTR, the Harrison School District and North Arkansas College. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby: Bull Shoals Lake and Table Rock Lake are both reservoirs, each a longer drive away. Table Rock State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area on the shore of Table Rock Lake. For a day out, Silver Dollar City is an amusement park, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 14,123 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lead Hill weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- North Arkansas Regional Medical CTRGeneral hospital626FTE
- Harrison School DistrictSchool district537FTE
- FedEx 2200 FORWARD DRTransportation air cargo530
- FedEx Freight GO AR FXFE-GOLess than truckload general freight trucking482
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters427
- North Arkansas CollegeTwo-year college318
- WestRock CPFolding paperboard box manufacturing214
- Bergman School DistrictSchool district212FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,216 people in all across the county; Lead Hill has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Lead Hill’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 Boone County and the Harrison, AR metro.
Lead Hill 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Lead Hill listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lead Hill19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lead Hill4
Zip codes with a Lead Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lead Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.