Nashville, Arkansas.
Typical home $184,312 (+1.4% in a year). Hope, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,488 +1%
- $181,823$184,312 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,802 +16%
- $158,510$184,312 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.
- Nashville$967
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Nashville, AR rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Nashville, Howard County, Arkansas
Nashville is a city of 4,153 people in Howard County. Half its households earn more than $41,142 a year and half less, against $45,603 across Howard County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Howard County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Howard County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nashville is a small city and the seat of Howard County in southwest Arkansas. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a good many households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work takes very little time.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then farming, forestry and mining, and shops. Tyson Poultry, the Nashville School District and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in town. Jobs across the county have been fewer than a year earlier, and unemployment is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is Crater of Diamonds State Park, a protected area a longer drive away. Millwood Lake, a reservoir, and Historic Washington State Park, a museum, are also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and bring little snow, summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 1,682households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Howard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howard County had 5,732 jobs in 2025, 6.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nashville
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,475
- Nashville School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Howard Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital188FTE
- Pilgrim's PrideEgg hatcheries, poultry68
- Smith's Ready MixReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing61
- Oasis Health CareNursing homes22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,840 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nashville’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 Howard County and the Hope, AR metro.
Nashville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nashville$184,312
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Nashville 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.
- Nashville13.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nashville36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nashville8
Zip codes with a Nashville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nashville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.