Lonoke, Arkansas.
Typical home $203,475 (+5.4% in a year), asking rent $1,100 . Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,493 +5%
- $192,982$203,475 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,692 +18%
- $172,783$203,475 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.
- Lonoke$1,068
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Lonoke, AR rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas
Lonoke is a city of 4,276 people in Lonoke County. Half its households earn more than $47,524 a year and half less, against $72,828 across Lonoke County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Lonoke County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lonoke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lonoke is a small city, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is typical across the country. Household incomes in town sit well below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than most Americans would find in their own town. A four-year degree is held by relatively few adults here.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehouses, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Lonoke County, the largest workplaces include the Cabot School District, Remington, which makes ammunition and small arms, and Walmart. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The closest-known places on offer are a longer drive away. The Clinton Presidential Center is a museum, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is another, and Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park is an archaeological site. Winters are cool, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 1,951households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lonoke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lonoke County had 15,977 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keo weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lonoke County
- Cabot School DistrictSchool district1,614FTE
- RemingtonAmmunition, small arms, manufacturing590
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters491
- Lonoke School DistrictSchool district265FTE
- Pinnacle StructuresBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters190
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores127
- England School DistrictSchool district118FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,963 people in all across the county; Lonoke has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lonoke’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 Lonoke County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Lonoke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lonoke$203,475
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lonoke 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.
- Lonoke18.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lonoke47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lonoke12
Zip codes with a Lonoke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lonoke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.