States · Arkansas · Izard County

Sidney, Arkansas.

. Batesville, AR metro.

What it costs per month · Sidney $1,177/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Arkansas $1,177 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Arkansas$1,177
  • United States$1,922

Living in Sidney, Izard County, Arkansas

Sidney is a town of 192 people in Izard County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Izard County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Izard County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 192 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Sidney for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.3% Izard County, August 2026; 6.6% a year before
Homes 91% lived in by their owners; 9% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sidney is a very small town in Izard County, Arkansas, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home, far more than across the county or the country as a whole. Fewer people live here than in most places that carry the name of a town, so it is the sort of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers run hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across Izard County, the largest workplaces include the Melbourne School District, Ozarka College and Eagle Health Systems. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs there has stayed about where it was, and the typical commute is a modest one.

Things to do. The nearest well-known outings are all a longer drive away. Blanchard Springs Caverns is a tourist attraction, Lake Charles State Park is a protected area, and the South Fork Spring River is a river for spending time by the water. Together they point toward the Ozark hills and streams that surround the town.

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  • 10%below the poverty line
  • 22 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What people in Izard County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care31%
  • Manufacturing16%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Building trades9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Izard County had 2,949 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 45° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 45° 24° F M A M J J 89° 67° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 45° and 24°; warmest in July, 89° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 45° 24° F M A M J J 89° 67° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evening Shade Nne weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Izard County

  1. Melbourne School DistrictSchool district171FTE
  2. Ozarka CollegeTwo-year college135
  3. Izard County Consolidated School DistrictSchool district107FTE
  4. Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities78
  5. Beasley Flooring Products MelbourneWood flooring manufacturing47
  6. AirReady MRO ServicesAircraft rebuilding46

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 171 people in all across the county; Sidney has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. TornadoesVery high
  3. Strong windRelatively high
  4. Inland floodingRelatively high
  5. Cold wavesRelatively high
  6. Winter weatherRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sidney’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 Izard County and the Batesville, AR metro.

Sidney home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Sidney address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sidney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.