Mountain Pine, Arkansas.
Typical home $118,154 (-1.5% in a year). Hot Springs, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$333 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,771 -1%
- $119,926$118,154 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,790 +13%
- $104,364$118,154 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.
- Mountain Pine$620
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Mountain Pine, AR fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain Pine, Garland County, Arkansas
Mountain Pine is a city of 585 people in Garland County. Unemployment in Garland County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Garland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mountain Pine is a very small city in Garland County, Arkansas, where homes are modest in price and most people know their neighbors. Winters are cool and short, with snow only a rare visitor, while summers turn hot by August. Rain and melted snow fall generously through the year, which keeps the surrounding countryside green.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Garland County, the largest workplaces include St. Vincent Hot Springs, National Park Medical Center and the Hot Springs School District. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. Glazypeau Creek runs in or beside town, a river for a quiet walk along the water. A short drive away are Hot Springs National Park, a national park, and Lake Ouachita, a large reservoir, with Lake Ouachita State Park close by for time in the woods and on the shore. Families can also head a short drive to Magic Springs and Crystal Falls, an amusement park.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Garland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garland County had 38,517 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 66°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blakely Mountain Dam weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garland County
- St. Vincent HOT SpringsGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- National Park Medical CenterGeneral hospital553FTE
- HOT Springs School DistrictSchool district510FTE
- Lake Hamilton School DistrictSchool district505FTE
- Lakeside School Dist(garland)School district399FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters342
- Magic Springs Theme and Water ParkAmusement parks292
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,583 people in all across the county; Mountain Pine has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountain Pine’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 Garland County and the Hot Springs, AR metro.
Mountain Pine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountain Pine$118,154
- 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.
Zip codes with a Mountain Pine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountain Pine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.