Manila, Arkansas.
Typical home $207,433 (+4.6% in a year). Blytheville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,060 +5%
- $198,373$207,433 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,433 +21%
- $172,000$207,433 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.
- Manila$1,089
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Manila, AR rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manila, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Manila is a city of 3,682 people in Mississippi County. Unemployment in Mississippi County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mississippi County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manila is a small city in the Arkansas Delta, in Mississippi County, with a younger population than many small towns. Homes here are priced somewhat below what many Americans pay, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in Manila include the Manila School District, the Southworth welding equipment plants and Manila Healthcare Center. Across Mississippi County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has shrunk a little. Most people drive a fair way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Herman Davis State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a short drive away for time among wetlands and wildlife. For a longer outing, the Eaker Site is an archaeological site that makes a day trip. Visitors who like local history can also look at the Nodena Site, another archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 1,333households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Mississippi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mississippi County had 19,773 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keiser weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manila
- Manila School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Southworth - Building 77Welding equipment manufacturing137
- Manila Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities84
- Southworth - Building 18Welding equipment manufacturing38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 259 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manila’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 Mississippi County and the Blytheville, AR metro.
Manila home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manila$207,433
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Manila listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Manila17.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manila28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manila6
Zip codes with a Manila address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manila — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.