Marvell, Arkansas.
Typical home $59,892 (-7.1% in a year). Helena-West Helena, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$17 (+6%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,568 -7%
- $64,461$59,892 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,859 -28%
- $83,751$59,892 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.
- Marvell$314
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marvell, AR fell 7.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marvell, Phillips County, Arkansas
Marvell is a city of 855 people in Phillips County. Unemployment in Phillips County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Phillips 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marvell is a very small city in Phillips County, Arkansas, in the Delta country of the eastern part of the state. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and across Phillips County household incomes sit well below what is typical nationally. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Across Phillips County, the largest workplaces include Kipp Delta Public Schools, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has stayed high and steady over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Louisiana Purchase State Park and Delta Heritage Trail State Park, both protected areas, are a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, and the Delta Cultural Center is a museum a longer drive away. Winters are cool and bring very little snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall plentifully through the year.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
What people in Phillips County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Phillips County had 4,333 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marianna South weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Phillips County
- Kipp Delta Public SchoolsSchool district285FTE
- Phillips Community College of the University of ArkansasTwo-year college270
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- Helena / West Helena School DistrictSchool district194FTE
- Barton School DistrictSchool district98FTE
- ArxadaOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing75
- United InitiatorsPeroxides, organic, manufacturing59
- Helena Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital56FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 534 people in all across the county; Marvell has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marvell’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 Phillips County and the Helena-West Helena, AR metro.
Marvell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marvell$59,892
- 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.
- Marvell6
Zip codes with a Marvell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marvell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.