Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Typical home $164,291 (-0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,262 -1%
- $165,553$164,291 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,724 +20%
- $136,567$164,291 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.
- Murfreesboro$862
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Murfreesboro, AR fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas
Murfreesboro is a city of 1,495 people in Pike County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murfreesboro is a small city in Pike County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes in the county run below what is typical across the country, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild and short, with snow rare, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also providing jobs. Across Pike County, the largest workplaces include the South Pike County School District, the Kirby School District and Great Southern Wood - Glenwood. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. Most people commute a moderate distance, and almost none work from home.
Things to do. Crater of Diamonds State Park is in or beside town, a protected area that is the best known place nearby. Lake Greeson is a lake just a short drive away. For a longer outing, Daisy State Park is a protected area that takes more time to reach.
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- 769households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 2,453 jobs in 2025, 5.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murfreesboro 1W weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- South Pike County School DistrictSchool district127FTE
- Kirby School DistrictSchool district80FTE
- Great Southern Wood - GlenwoodWood preservation74
- J&J LumberSawmills46
- John Plyler Plumbing and HardwareHardware stores40
- Shelby Group International, Inc. (DBA MCR Glenwood)Industrial and personal service paper merchant wholesalers40
- Glenwood Country ClubGolf courses20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 220 people in all across the county; Murfreesboro 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively 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 Murfreesboro’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 Pike County.
Murfreesboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murfreesboro$164,291
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Murfreesboro listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Murfreesboro14.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murfreesboro28
Zip codes with a Murfreesboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murfreesboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.