Ravenden, Arkansas.
. Batesville, AR metro.
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 Ravenden, Randolph County, Arkansas
Ravenden is a town of 426 people in Randolph County. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ravenden is a very small town in Randolph County, in the northeast corner of Arkansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and a fair number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold but not severe, with only light snowfall, and summers turn hot. The year is wet overall, with plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job. Across Randolph County, some of the largest workplaces are Peco Foods' poultry processing plant, the Pocahontas School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The area is good for time outdoors, mostly on the water. Spring River and Current River are both well-known rivers, each a longer drive away. For a different kind of day, Powhatan Historic State Park is a museum and Davidsonville Historic State Park is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away. Lake Charles State Park, a protected area, is another longer drive.
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- 165households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 6,419 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hardy weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Peco Foods Inc.-Poultry Processing PlantChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,656
- Pocahontas School DistrictSchool district340FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- Randolph County Nursing HomeNursing homes202
- Black River Technical CollegeTwo-year college196
- Maynard School DistrictSchool district146FTE
- Five Rivers Medical CenterGeneral hospital109FTE
- Five Rivers Medical CenterGeneral hospital104FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,686 people in all across the county; Ravenden has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 windVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ravenden’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 Randolph County and the Batesville, AR metro.
Ravenden 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.
- Ravenden11
Zip codes with a Ravenden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ravenden — 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.