Stamps, Arkansas.
Typical home $77,912 (-4.8% in a year). Magnolia, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$95 (+30%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,918 -5%
- $81,830$77,912 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,166 -23%
- $101,078$77,912 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.
- Stamps$409
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Stamps, AR fell 4.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stamps, Lafayette County, Arkansas
Stamps is a city of 1,258 people in Lafayette County. Half its households earn more than $37,297 a year and half less, against $41,278 across Lafayette County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Lafayette County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stamps is a small city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical, so this is a place where homes are modestly priced and many people have lived for a long time. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and forestry, and shops. Across Lafayette County, the largest workplaces include the Lafayette County School District, Oasis Health Care and Messer North America. Jobs across the county have slipped over the past year, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, though some people work from home.
Things to do. The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Battle Mound Site, an archaeological site. Logoly State Park is also a longer drive away and is a protected area for time outdoors. The Little River and the Sulphur River are both within a longer drive for anyone who likes to be near water.
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- 654households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Lafayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette County had 1,047 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewisville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette County
- Lafayette County School DistrictSchool district143FTE
- Oasis Health CareNursing homes52
- Messer North AmericaIndustrial gases manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 80 people in all across the county; Stamps has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stamps’ 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 Lafayette County and the Magnolia, AR metro.
Stamps home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stamps$77,912
- 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 Stamps address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stamps — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.