Lincoln, Arkansas.
Typical home $259,976 (+5.2% in a year). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$804 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,911 +5%
- $247,065$259,976 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,604 +30%
- $200,372$259,976 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.
- Lincoln$1,365
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lincoln, AR rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas
Lincoln is a city of 2,294 people in Washington County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lincoln is a small city in Washington County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes in the county run higher than the typical household income in much of the country, though a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day on the road. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Few people work from home. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Arkansas, the Springdale School District and Washington Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has grown slightly.
Things to do. Cane Hill Cemetery, a protected area, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, an archaeological site, and the Illinois River, which is a pleasant spot for time on the water. Farther afield, Devil's Den State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 984households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 122,001 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stilwell Nnw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- University of ArkansasUniversity or college5,766
- Springdale School DistrictSchool district3,163FTE
- Washington Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,889FTE
- Fayetteville School DistrictSchool district1,669FTE
- Springdale Processing1,568
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,545
- Central StatesWarehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing1,306
- Tyson Sales and DistributionGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload1,244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 219 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 34,442 people in all across the county; Lincoln has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lincoln’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 Washington County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Lincoln home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lincoln$259,976
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lincoln listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
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.
- Lincoln25.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lincoln49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lincoln10
Zip codes with a Lincoln address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lincoln — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.