Marked Tree, Arkansas.
Typical home $104,485 (+7.2% in a year). Jonesboro, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$216 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,034 +7%
- $97,451$104,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $352 -0%
- $104,837$104,485 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.
- Marked Tree$548
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marked Tree, AR rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marked Tree, Poinsett County, Arkansas
Marked Tree is a city of 2,286 people in Poinsett County. Half its households earn more than $45,656 a year and half less, against $46,707 across Poinsett County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Poinsett County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marked Tree is a small Arkansas city in Poinsett County, with households whose incomes run a little below the county's and a poverty rate that is high. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and typical home prices are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. The year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and other services also common. The largest workplaces in Marked Tree include the Marked Tree School District, Tank Holding, a maker of tanks and plastic or fiberglass goods, and Houchens Food Group, a grocery chain. Unemployment across Poinsett County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Poinsett State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to time outdoors. Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for watching wildlife. For a look at the region's history, Parkin Archeological State Park is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 795households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Poinsett County had 5,347 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Poinsett Sp weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marked Tree
- Marked Tree School DistrictSchool district84FTE
- Tank HoldingTanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing32
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 59 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marked Tree’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 Poinsett County and the Jonesboro, AR metro.
Marked Tree home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marked Tree$104,485
- 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.
- Marked Tree11
Zip codes with a Marked Tree address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marked Tree — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.