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Norman, Arkansas.

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What it costs per month · Norman $1,177/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Arkansas $1,177 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Arkansas$1,177
  • United States$1,922

Living in Norman, Montgomery County, Arkansas

Norman is a town of 303 people in Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 303 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Norman for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.2% Montgomery County, August 2026; 5.1% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Norman for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norman is a very small town in Montgomery County, Arkansas, with few residents and the quiet that goes with that. Few of its adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home. Winters are cold but short, with only a little snow, summers get hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.

Work. People in Norman mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include the Caddo Hills School District, the Forest Service and CG Roxane LLC Norman, which purifies and bottles spring water. Household incomes in the county are modest, and the job market there has been close to flat, with a few more jobs than the year before.

Things to do. The nearest outdoor places are all a longer drive away, but the country around Norman is full of them. Crater of Diamonds State Park is a protected area that visitors know for its diamond-hunting field. Lake Ouachita is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Little Missouri Falls is a waterfall in the Ouachita hills.

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  • 11%of adults have a degree
  • 1%work from home

What people in Montgomery County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities10%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Building trades7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 1,283 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 28°; warmest in July, 90° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 50° 28° F M A M J J 90° 68° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 28°; warmest in July, 90° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 50° 28° F M A M J J 90° 68° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Ida Southeast weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Montgomery County

  1. Caddo Hills School DistrictSchool district121FTE
  2. Mount IDA School DistrictSchool district87FTE
  3. Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture37
  4. CG Roxane LLC NormanSpring waters, purifying and bottling27
  5. Healthy Connections, Inc.-Mt. IdaCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient24

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 51 people in all across the county; Norman has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. LightningVery high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. TornadoesRelatively high
  6. Winter weatherRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norman’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 Montgomery County.

Norman home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 8 10 2026 Norman 10
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Zip codes with a Norman address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.