Romance, Arkansas.
Typical home $240,452 (+2.7% in a year). Searcy, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,372 +3%
- $234,080$240,452 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,114 +23%
- $195,338$240,452 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.
- Romance$1,262
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Romance, AR rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Romance, White County, Arkansas
The Census does not count Romance on its own, so the figures here are White County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,249 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in White County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in White County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Romance is a small community in White County, in central Arkansas, where most of the homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Many residents work in the local schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in factories and in the building trades. The county's figures show a modest share of adults hold a college degree, and a fair number of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Across White County, unemployment has eased over the past year, and more jobs were added than in the year before. Most people travel to work by car, and few work from home. Common employers include schools, hospitals, shops, manufacturing plants and building firms.
Things to do. Greers Ferry Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away and offers a wide stretch of water for boating and fishing. Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a longer drive and suits those who enjoy quiet walks among birds and wetlands. For a lighter outing, the Century Flyer, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 29,629households
- 38.8median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in White County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. White County had 26,591 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Searcy weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White County
- White County Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,192FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,007
- Harding UniversityUniversity or college960
- Bryce-Searcy LocationPrinting, flexographic640
- Land O'Frost - SearcyMeat processed from carcasses591
- Searcy School DistrictSchool district582FTE
- Beebe School DistrictSchool district515FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters483
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,744 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across White County, 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 White County and the Searcy, AR metro.
Romance home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Romance$240,452
- 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.
- Romance7
Zip codes with a Romance address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Romance — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.