Scott, Arkansas.
Typical home $315,046 (+5.8% in a year). Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$866 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,337 +6%
- $297,709$315,046 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,310 +22%
- $258,735$315,046 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.
- Scott$1,654
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Scott, AR rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scott, Lonoke County, Arkansas
Scott, in Lonoke County, had 97 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lonoke County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lonoke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scott is a small community in Lonoke County, Arkansas, close enough to Little Rock, the state capital, for shopping, medical care and outings. Winters are mild, with snow rare, while summers are hot and the town gets a good deal of rain through the year. The land and the seasons shape everyday life here more than any busy town centre does.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others work in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in manufacturing. Together these jobs keep the surrounding region supplied and cared for.
Things to do. The Clinton Presidential Center, a museum devoted to a former president, is a short drive away. The Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park, also a short drive off, protects an ancient archaeological site. The Plantation Agriculture Museum is in or beside town, making it the easiest of these to reach.
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What people in Lonoke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lonoke County had 15,977 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Rock Airport Adams Field weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lonoke County
- Cabot School DistrictSchool district1,614FTE
- RemingtonAmmunition, small arms, manufacturing590
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters491
- Lonoke School DistrictSchool district265FTE
- Pinnacle StructuresBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters190
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores127
- England School DistrictSchool district118FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,963 people in all across the county; Scott 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
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scott’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 Lonoke County and the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro.
Scott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scott$315,046
- 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.
- Scott16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Scott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Scott
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72046 | England | 3,876 | — | $130,836 |
| 72142 | Scott | 2,557 | — | $306,070 |