Parks, 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 Parks, Scott County, Arkansas
Parks is a township in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $39,479 a year and half less, against $43,270 across Scott County. Unemployment in Scott County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parks is a township in Scott County, Arkansas, where winters are cold and summers are hot. Snow is light most years, but rain falls often through the year. Household incomes in the town are lower than the county's median.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before.
Things to do. Catalpa Creek runs in or beside town, so it is the nearest water to visit. The Poteau River, a river, is a short drive away, and the Ouachita National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 2,980 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waldron weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing827
- Waldron School DistrictSchool district280FTE
- Mansfield School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery101
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery56
- Mercy Hospital WaldronCritical access hospital43FTE
- Hightower & Shepard Group PropcoAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities37
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,136 people in all across the county; Parks has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Scott County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Scott County.
Parks 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.
- Parks6
Zip codes with a Parks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parks — 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.