Mountainburg, Arkansas.
Typical home $221,174 (+7.5% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$655 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,389 +7%
- $205,785$221,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,950 +28%
- $173,224$221,174 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.
- Mountainburg$1,161
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Mountainburg, AR rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountainburg, Crawford County, Arkansas
Mountainburg is a city of 528 people in Crawford County. Unemployment in Crawford County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 7.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crawford County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mountainburg is a very small city in Crawford County, Arkansas, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Winters are cold but rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year. A typical home here is worth more than the county's median household income might suggest at first glance, so it is worth looking at both numbers together.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Crawford County, some of the largest workplaces are Simmons Foods, the Van Buren School District and Walmart. A small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Fort Smith State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Devil's Den State Park, another protected area, and to the Illinois River, a river that draws people to the water. Each is a day-out distance rather than a quick trip down the road.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Crawford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 17,862 jobs in 2025, 7.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountainburg Northeast weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Simmons Foods1,035
- Van Buren School DistrictSchool district899FTE
- Simmons Foods744
- Alma School DistrictSchool district472FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters393
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Creative Design conceptsRoad construction219
- Dillmeier EnterprisesTempered glass made from purchased glass140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,688 people in all across the county; Mountainburg has one of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountainburg’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Crawford County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Mountainburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountainburg$221,174
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mountainburg 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.
- Mountainburg18.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountainburg22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mountainburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountainburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.