Mulberry, Arkansas.
Typical home $182,030 (+6.9% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,721 +7%
- $170,308$182,030 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,110 +25%
- $145,920$182,030 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.
- Mulberry$955
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Mulberry, AR rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas
Mulberry is a city of 1,543 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $50,428 a year and half less, against $55,886 across Franklin County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mulberry is a small city in Franklin County, Arkansas. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. A typical home is worth less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, summers are hot, and snow is light and rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in town include the Mulberry/Pleasant View Bi-county Schools and Utility Tri-State, a truck trailer wholesaler with locations in Mulberry and Alma. Franklin County has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs, and unemployment there has eased over the past year. A typical commute is a fairly short one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Mulberry River is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get out on the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Fort Smith National Historic Site, a protected area that looks back at the region's frontier past. A longer drive also reaches Devil's Den State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 683households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 4,924 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mulberry
- Mulberry/pleasant View Bi-county SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Utility Tri-State, Inc.-NorthTruck trailer merchant wholesalers49
- Utility Tri-State, Inc.-AlmaTruck trailer merchant wholesalers39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 88 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mulberry’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 Franklin County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Mulberry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mulberry$182,030
- 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.
- Mulberry16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mulberry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mulberry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.