Leslie, Arkansas.
Typical home $174,337 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,550 +6%
- $164,786$174,337 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,828 +13%
- $154,509$174,337 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.
- Leslie$915
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Leslie, AR rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leslie, Searcy County, Arkansas
Leslie is a city of 375 people in Searcy County. Unemployment in Searcy County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Searcy County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leslie is a very small city in Searcy County, in the Arkansas Ozarks, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are valued below what many Americans would expect to pay, and household incomes across Searcy County run modest. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a little snow each year, while July brings hot summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Across Searcy County, the largest workplaces include the Searcy County School District, Harp's Food Store and Friendship Community Care. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Ozarks around Leslie offer plenty of outdoor time, though each place below is a longer drive away. Blanchard Springs Caverns is a well-known tourist attraction, and the Buffalo National River is a protected area for paddling and hiking. The Ozark Folk Center is a museum devoted to the region's crafts and traditions.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Searcy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Searcy County had 1,490 jobs in 2025, 5.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshall weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Searcy County
- Progressive SolutionsArborist services670
- Searcy County School DistrictSchool district196FTE
- Ozark Mountain School DistrictSchool district165FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery92
- Apex ROWLandscaping services68
- Friendship Community Care624410 child care services27
- McClain Forest ProductsDimension lumber, hardwood, resawing purchased lumber20
- Royal Oak EnterprisesCharcoal manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 897 people in all across the county; Leslie 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leslie’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 Searcy County.
Leslie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leslie$174,337
- 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.
- Leslie11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Leslie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leslie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.