Perryville, Arkansas.
Typical home $163,767 (+0.9% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$462 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,445 +1%
- $162,322$163,767 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,374 +26%
- $130,393$163,767 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.
- Perryville$860
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Perryville, AR rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perryville, Perry County, Arkansas
Perryville is a city of 1,373 people in Perry County. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perryville is a small city and the seat of Perry County, Arkansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. A typical home here costs well under what many Americans pay, though a good share of residents live below the poverty line, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers hot, with only a light dusting of snow in most years and plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Perry County, the biggest workplaces include the Perryville School District, East END School District and Harp's Food Store. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs, and a typical commute is a moderate one, with some people working from home.
Things to do. The Museum of Automobiles is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Petit Jean State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Fourche La Fave River is a river a longer drive away. Pinnacle Mountain State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive from town.
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- 576households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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, 10 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; Perryville has two 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 Perryville’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.
Perryville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perryville$163,767
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Perryville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Perryville36.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perryville31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perryville6
Zip codes with a Perryville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perryville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.