Rose Bud, Arkansas.
Typical home $221,508 (+5.9% in a year). Searcy, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$688 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,326 +6%
- $209,182$221,508 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,034 +33%
- $166,475$221,508 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.
- Rose Bud$1,163
- 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 Rose Bud, AR rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas
Rose Bud is a town of 494 people in White County. Half its households earn more than $54,286 a year and half less, against $55,249 across White County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rose Bud is a very small town in White County, Arkansas, where households have incomes a little below the county's. Homes here are valued at a modest level, and winters are mild and short on snow, while summers run hot. Rain falls through the year, adding up to a good deal over the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across White County, some of the biggest workplaces are White County Medical Center, Harding University and the Searcy School District. Few people here work from home, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Greers Ferry Lake, a reservoir, is the best known place nearby and is a longer drive away, as is Bridal Veil Falls, a waterfall. Woolly Hollow State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area suited to a day outdoors. Together they give the town's residents lake, falls and parkland to visit.
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- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 4%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 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greers Ferry Dam weather station, 14 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 across the county; Rose Bud has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Rose Bud’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 White County and the Searcy, AR metro.
Rose Bud home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rose Bud$221,508
- 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.
- Rose Bud11
Zip codes with a Rose Bud address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rose Bud — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.