Plainview, Arkansas.
Typical home $120,596 (-0.5% in a year). Russellville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$258 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $593 -0%
- $121,189$120,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,830 -5%
- $127,426$120,596 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.
- Plainview$633
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Plainview, AR fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Yell County, Arkansas
Plainview is a city of 467 people in Yell County. Half its households earn more than $45,329 a year and half less, against $55,934 across Yell County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Yell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yell County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a very small Arkansas city in Yell County, with fewer people than most towns of its kind. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country. Winters are mild but cold enough for frost, with only a light dusting of snow in most years, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Yell County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Poultry, Wayne Sanderson Farms and the Dardanelle School District. The typical commute is long, which suggests many people travel some distance to their jobs, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Nimrod Lake, a lake a short drive away, is the nearest spot for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Dardanelle, another lake, and to Petit Jean State Park, one of the best known protected areas in the state. Together they offer fishing, boating and trails within reach of town.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Yell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yell County had 6,405 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nimrod Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yell County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing839
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing631
- Dardanelle School DistrictSchool district346FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters221
- Grandeur FastenersRivets, metal, manufacturing200
- TWO Rivers School DistrictSchool district172FTE
- Danville School DistrictSchool district160FTE
- PotlatchDeltic Manufacturing LLC, OlaSawmills160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,654 people in all across the county; Plainview 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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainview’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 Yell County and the Russellville, AR metro.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$120,596
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainview13
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.