Leola, Arkansas.
Typical home $144,310 (-2.6% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$278 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,925 -3%
- $148,235$144,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $25,062 -15%
- $169,373$144,310 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.
- Leola$757
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Leola, AR fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leola, Grant County, Arkansas
Leola is a town of 460 people in Grant County. Unemployment in Grant County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Grant 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leola is a very small town in Grant County, Arkansas, where homes are modest in price and most adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and the year is a wet one, with plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and retail close behind. Across Grant County, some of the largest workplaces are Kohler, the Sheridan School District and Walmart. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Close to town, Jenkins' Ferry Battleground State Park and Bird Kiln are both archaeological sites a short drive away. For time on the water, DeGray Lake is a reservoir and the Caddo River is a river, both a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 4,601 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leola weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- KohlerFaucets, plumbing, manufacturing724
- Sheridan School DistrictSchool district532FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters233
- Kohler CoPlumbing fixtures, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing150
- Kohler Arkansas Distribution CenterGeneral warehousing and storage133
- Nucor Insulated Panel Group - SheridanPanels, prefabricated metal building, manufacturing114
- Platinum RoofingRoofing contractors96
- Poyen School DistrictSchool district96FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,745 people in all across the county; Leola 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 stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leola’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Grant County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Leola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leola$144,310
- 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.
Zip codes with a Leola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.