Springfield, Arkansas.
Typical home $160,793 (+10.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$409 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,800 +11%
- $144,994$160,793 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,929 +13%
- $142,865$160,793 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.
- Springfield$844
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Springfield, AR rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Conway County, Arkansas
Springfield, in Conway County, had 223 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $73,918 a year and half less, against $54,187 across Conway County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Conway County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Conway 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a very small community in Conway County, Arkansas, where households do better than across the county as a whole. Incomes run well above the county's, and few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Conway County, some of the largest workplaces are Green Bay Packaging-Arkansas Kraft Division, South Conway County School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Petit Jean State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is one of the better known outdoor places in the region. Greers Ferry Lake, a reservoir, and Lake Conway, a lake, are also a longer drive away for time on the water. Cadron Settlement, a park, is another longer drive for a day out.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Conway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Conway County had 6,346 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenbrier weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Conway County
- Green Bay Packaging-Arkansas Kraft DivisionKraft paper stock manufacturing414
- South Conway County School DistrictSchool district401FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- University of Arkansas Community College-MorriltonTwo-year college213
- Koontz ElectricElectrical contractors190
- Semco LLC - Petite JeanHeating and air conditioning combination units manufacturing146
- Nemo Vista School DistrictSchool district121FTE
- Wayne Smith TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,622 people in all across the county; Springfield 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’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 Conway County.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$160,793
- 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.
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — 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.