Mayflower, Arkansas.
Typical home $221,166 (+3.9% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$547 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,402 +4%
- $212,764$221,166 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,960 +19%
- $186,206$221,166 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.
- Mayflower$1,161
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Mayflower, AR rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mayflower, Faulkner County, Arkansas
Mayflower is a city of 1,984 people in Faulkner County. Half its households earn more than $75,682 a year and half less, against $67,289 across Faulkner County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Faulkner County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mayflower is a small city in Faulkner County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical elsewhere. Household incomes run above the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool rather than hard, with the coldest days in January, while summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with professional and business services close behind. The largest workplaces in town include the Mayflower School District, Harp's Food Store and Lumber One Home Center. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and very few people work from home. Across Faulkner County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Lake Conway and Lake Willastein Park are both a short drive away for time by the water, and Pinnacle Mountain State Park, also a short drive off, is a protected area for walking outdoors. For a museum day, the Clinton Presidential Center is a longer drive away.
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- 1,086households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Faulkner County had 45,993 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marche weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mayflower
- Mayflower School DistrictSchool district164FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery100
- Lumber One Home CenterHome centers, building materials62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 162 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mayflower’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 Faulkner County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Mayflower home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mayflower$221,166
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mayflower listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Mayflower20.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mayflower35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mayflower7
Zip codes with a Mayflower address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mayflower — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.