Mansfield, Arkansas.
Typical home $177,113 (+7.9% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$479 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,909 +8%
- $164,204$177,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,184 +16%
- $152,929$177,113 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.
- Mansfield$930
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Mansfield, AR rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mansfield, Scott County, Arkansas
Mansfield is a city of 1,053 people in Scott County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Scott County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mansfield is a small city in western Arkansas, home to a small population where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes across Scott County sit below those in much of the country, and few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall in generous amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces across Scott County are Tyson Poultry, the Waldron School District and the Mansfield School District. Jobs in the county were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Most people have a short drive to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Ouachita River and the Poteau River are both a longer drive away, as is the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest, a large protected area. History lovers can head to Spiro Mounds, an archaeological site that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 452households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 2,980 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waldron weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing827
- Waldron School DistrictSchool district280FTE
- Mansfield School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery101
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery56
- Mercy Hospital WaldronCritical access hospital43FTE
- Hightower & Shepard Group PropcoAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities37
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,136 people in all across the county; Mansfield has two of its own. School districts come 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of MansfieldRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mansfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Scott County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Mansfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mansfield$177,113
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Mansfield12
Zip codes with a Mansfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mansfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.