Rudy, Arkansas.
Typical home $264,416 (+9.0% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$825 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,898 +9%
- $242,518$264,416 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,792 +39%
- $190,624$264,416 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.
- Rudy$1,388
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Rudy, AR rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rudy, Crawford County, Arkansas
Rudy is a town of 130 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $56,181 a year and half less, against $64,132 across Crawford County. Unemployment in Crawford County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 7.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crawford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rudy is a very small town in Crawford County, Arkansas, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in the region. Household incomes here run below the county's, while the typical home is valued well above what the town's incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is light and rare, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Crawford County, the largest workplaces include Simmons Foods, the Van Buren School District and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Lee Creek, a river, and the King Opera House, a theatre, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Fort Smith State Park is a protected area with water and woods, and Devil's Den State Park is another protected area that suits a day away from town.
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What people in Crawford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 17,862 jobs in 2025, 7.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountainburg Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Simmons Foods1,035
- Van Buren School DistrictSchool district899FTE
- Simmons Foods744
- Alma School DistrictSchool district472FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters393
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Creative Design conceptsRoad construction219
- Dillmeier EnterprisesTempered glass made from purchased glass140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,688 people in all across the county; Rudy 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rudy’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 Crawford County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Rudy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rudy$264,416
- 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.
- Rudy5
Zip codes with a Rudy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rudy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.