Perry, Arkansas.
Typical home $161,692 (+6.0% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,197 +6%
- $152,495$161,692 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,549 +20%
- $135,143$161,692 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.
- Perry$849
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Perry, AR rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perry, Perry County, Arkansas
Perry is a town of 262 people in Perry County. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perry is a very small town in Perry County, Arkansas, with a population among the smallest of any US town. Residents tend to be of working age, and the typical home costs less than in much of the country. Winters are cold for Arkansas but rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Perry County, the largest workplaces include the Perryville School District, the East END School District and Harp's Food Store. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and most people travel some distance to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Petit Jean State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is the Museum of Automobiles. Farther afield, Lake Dardanelle offers lake shoreline, and Pinnacle Mountain State Park is another protected area, both a longer drive away. Together they give a mix of woods, water and a museum visit within reach of town.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 1,077 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrilton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Perryville School DistrictSchool district165FTE
- East END School DistrictSchool district111FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery53
- McDonald Companies34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 87 people in all across the county; Perry has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perry’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 Perry County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Perry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perry$161,692
- 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.
Zip codes with a Perry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.