Oden, Arkansas.
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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.
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
Living in Oden, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Oden is a town of 180 people in Montgomery County. Half its households earn more than $43,718 a year and half less, against $48,906 across 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.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oden is a very small town in Montgomery County, Arkansas, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes here are below the county's. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in January bringing highs near the freezing mark more often than not, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is light, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents of Oden work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, transport and warehouses, and manufacturing. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include the Caddo Hills School District, the Mount IDA School District and the Forest Service. The commute is short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Ouachita National Forest, a large protected area, and Lake Ouachita, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away, and offer room for hiking, boating and fishing. Little Missouri Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away and makes a good outing in wetter months. Anyone who likes a view might head to the Tall Peak Fire Tower, a tourist attraction in the same hill country.
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- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
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
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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Caddo Hills School DistrictSchool district121FTE
- Mount IDA School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture37
- CG Roxane LLC NormanSpring waters, purifying and bottling27
- 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; Oden 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oden’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Oden 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.
- Oden7
Zip codes with a Oden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oden — 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.