Rison, Arkansas.
Typical home $166,001 (+0.7% in a year). Pine Bluff, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$296 (+51%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,226 +1%
- $164,775$166,001 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,635 -2%
- $168,636$166,001 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.
- Rison$871
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Rison, AR rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rison, Cleveland County, Arkansas
Rison is a city of 967 people in Cleveland County. Unemployment in Cleveland County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cleveland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rison is a very small city and the seat of Cleveland County in southern Arkansas. Homes here are valued well below what many Americans pay, and across the county household incomes run on the modest side. Winters are mild but cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. People in Rison most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and the building trades also employing many residents. Across Cleveland County, the biggest employers are the Cleveland County School District and the Woodlawn School District. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Joblessness across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. For a day out, Marks' Mills Battleground State Park is an archaeological site and Civil War battleground, a longer drive away. Look See Tree is a tourist attraction, also a longer drive away, and Cane Creek State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, again a longer drive. Each trip means a longer drive from town.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Cleveland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleveland County had 1,051 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rison weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland County
- Cleveland County School DistrictSchool district148FTE
- Woodlawn School DistrictSchool district88FTE
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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rison’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 Cleveland County and the Pine Bluff, AR metro.
Rison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rison$166,001
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Rison 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.
- Rison18.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rison19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.