Piggott, Arkansas.
Typical home $139,277 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,750 +5%
- $132,527$139,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,886 +33%
- $104,391$139,277 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.
- Piggott$731
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Piggott, AR rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Piggott, Clay County, Arkansas
Piggott is a city of 3,622 people in Clay County. Half its households earn more than $44,468 a year and half less, against $51,481 across Clay County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Piggott is a small city in Clay County, Arkansas, and a place where most households own the home they live in. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a place this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes tend to be modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frosty nights, while July brings hot summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and local shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Piggott are the Piggott School District, the wholesale business Aerial, and Harp's Food Store. Across Clay County there are fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Chalk Bluff, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Morris State Park, a protected area, and to Hydro Adventures, an amusement park. Cane Creek is a river that is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,484households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 3,023 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kennett Radio Kboa weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piggott
- Piggott School DistrictSchool district152FTE
- AerialWholesale100
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery80
- Piggott Health & Senior LivingNursing homes43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Piggott’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 Clay County.
Piggott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Piggott$139,277
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Piggott listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Piggott17.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Piggott50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Piggott9
Zip codes with a Piggott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Piggott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.