Taylor, Arkansas.
Typical home $120,038 (-3.0% in a year). Magnolia, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$248 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,772 -3%
- $123,810$120,038 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,044 -6%
- $128,082$120,038 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.
- Taylor$630
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Taylor, AR fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Taylor, Lafayette County, Arkansas
Taylor is a city of 579 people in Lafayette County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Taylor is a very small Arkansas city in Lafayette County, with few enough residents that most people know one another. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is typical across the country, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are mild and cold snaps are short, with little snow, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and shops also employing many. Across Lafayette County, the largest workplaces include the Lafayette County School District, Oasis Health Care and Messer North America. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor and historical outings are all a longer drive away. The Sulphur River offers a stretch of river country, and Conway Cemetery State Park is a protected area with historic ties. Logoly State Park is another protected area, a place for walking and time outdoors.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
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, 19 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; Taylor 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Taylor’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 Lafayette County and the Magnolia, AR metro.
Taylor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taylor$120,038
- 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.
- Taylor10
Zip codes with a Taylor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taylor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.