Smackover, Arkansas.
Typical home $121,254 (-3.2% in a year). El Dorado, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$232 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,984 -3%
- $125,238$121,254 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,314 -7%
- $130,568$121,254 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.
- Smackover$636
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Smackover, AR fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smackover, Union County, Arkansas
Smackover is a city of 1,630 people in Union County. Half its households earn more than $55,995 a year and half less, against $55,259 across Union County. Unemployment in Union County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smackover is a small city in Union County, Arkansas, where the typical resident is somewhat older than the average American and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes sit slightly above the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in manufacturing and wholesale. Across Union County, some of the largest workplaces are the El Dorado School District, South Arkansas Regional Hospital and Walmart. Jobs in the county have slipped over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. A typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is in or beside town, which makes it the easiest outing. Boone's Mounds, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. For a longer drive, Moro Bay State Park is a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 893households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 16,056 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Dorado South Ar Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- El Dorado School DistrictSchool district579FTE
- Clean Harbors El Dorado LLC 69EL558
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters367
- AmerCableCable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire296
- South Arkansas Regional HospitalGeneral hospital296FTE
- Lanxess Central PlantBromine manufacturing275
- Delek USPetroleum refineries250
- Milbank Manufacturing - El DoradoBoxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing196
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,034 people in all across the county; Smackover has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smackover’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Union County and the El Dorado, AR metro.
Smackover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smackover$121,254
- 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.
- Smackover5
Zip codes with a Smackover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smackover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.