Monette, Arkansas.
Typical home $153,176 (+6.4% in a year). Jonesboro, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$410 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,252 +6%
- $143,924$153,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,536 +11%
- $137,639$153,176 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.
- Monette$804
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Monette, AR rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monette, Craighead County, Arkansas
Monette is a city of 1,506 people in Craighead County. Half its households earn more than $54,167 a year and half less, against $59,548 across Craighead County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Craighead County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Craighead 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monette is a small city in Craighead County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in a modest range. Winters are cold but short on snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a quick trip across town. Across Craighead County, some of the largest workplaces are ST Bernards Medical Center, Arkansas State University and Frito LAY. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Several state parks and protected areas lie within a longer drive, including Crowley's Ridge State Park and Lake Frierson State Park, both good for time outdoors. Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby natural areas. For history, the Hampson Archeological Museum State Park is a museum a longer drive from town.
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- 536households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Craighead County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Craighead County had 55,451 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paragould 1S weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Craighead County
- St Bernards Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,522FTE
- Arkansas State UniversityUniversity or college1,934
- NEA Baptist Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,116FTE
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing1,114
- NestleDinners, frozen, manufacturing860
- Jonesboro School DistrictSchool district829FTE
- NEA Baptist Clinic Charitable FoundationMds' offices790
- Nettleton School DistrictSchool district613FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 118 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,595 people in all across the county; Monette has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monette’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Craighead County and the Jonesboro, AR metro.
Monette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monette$153,176
- 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.
- Monette9
Zip codes with a Monette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.