Decatur, Arkansas.
Typical home $278,111 (+5.4% in a year). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,174 +5%
- $263,937$278,111 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,153 +36%
- $204,958$278,111 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.
- Decatur$1,460
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Decatur, AR rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Decatur, Benton County, Arkansas
Decatur is a city of 1,773 people in Benton County. Half its households earn more than $45,179 a year and half less, against $93,506 across Benton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Benton County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton County work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Decatur is a small city in Benton County, home to a population that skews a little younger than many small towns. Incomes here run well below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect, so renting is common. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing, with some in professional and business services. Across Benton County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, the Bentonville School District and Simmons Foods. The trip to work is of a typical length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Old Spanish Treasure Cave is a tourist attraction a short drive away, and Sager Creek and Mill Creek are streams within a short drive. Farther afield, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum a longer drive away. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
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- 663households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 150,665 jobs in 2025, 4.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 12 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gravette weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- WalmartCommercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance3,811
- Bentonville School DistrictSchool district2,630FTE
- Lowell AR - JB Hunt Corporate B & C2,458
- America's Car-MartUsed car dealers2,324
- Rogers School DistrictSchool district2,288FTE
- Simmons Foods1,571
- McKee Foods Corporation and Affiliates, Gentry ArkansasDoughnuts made in commercial bakeries1,511
- Mercy Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,398FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 227 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 42,355 people in all across the county; Decatur has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of DecaturRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of DecaturRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Decatur’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Benton County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Decatur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Decatur$278,111
- 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.
- Decatur16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Decatur5
Zip codes with a Decatur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Decatur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.