Newark, Arkansas.
Typical home $152,131 (+5.7% in a year). Batesville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,201 +6%
- $143,931$152,131 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,937 +11%
- $137,194$152,131 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.
- Newark$798
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Newark, AR rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newark, Independence County, Arkansas
Newark is a city of 1,180 people in Independence County. Unemployment in Independence County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newark is a small city in Independence County, Arkansas, with a population that stays well under the size of the county's larger towns. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool with only a dusting of snow, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Almost nobody works from home. Across Independence County, some of the largest workplaces are White River Medical Center, Peco Foods and the Batesville School District. The county's unemployment rate has eased from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Jacksonport State Park, a museum, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Strawberry River and to Lake Charles State Park, a protected area.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Independence County had 17,752 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Batesville L&d weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Independence County
- White River Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,917FTE
- Peco FoodsPoultry processing1,442
- Ozark Mountain Poultry1,024
- Batesville School DistrictSchool district647FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters421
- Southside School District (independence)School district367FTE
- Custom Craft PoultryChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked288
- Flowers Baking Co. of BatesvilleCommercial bakeries239
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,827 people in all across the county; Newark has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newark’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 Independence County and the Batesville, AR metro.
Newark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newark$152,131
- 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.
- Newark9
Zip codes with a Newark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.