Umpire, Arkansas.
Typical home $216,182 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,745 +2%
- $212,437$216,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,428 +18%
- $183,755$216,182 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.
- Umpire$1,135
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Umpire, AR rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Umpire, Howard County, Arkansas
Umpire is a township in Howard County. Unemployment in Howard County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Howard County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Umpire is a township in Howard County, in west-central Arkansas, where the land is hilly and wooded and much of the surrounding country is forest. Most people here know one another, and many have lived in the area for generations. The county seat and larger towns lie a short way off, so residents often travel for shopping, medical care, and other needs.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, or in retail shops. Work in the area tends to follow these local industries, and many people commute as well. Jobs have been harder to find in recent years across the county.
Things to do. Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area is in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a walk or a day by the water. Ouachita National Forest lies a longer drive away and offers large areas of woods for hiking and camping. Gillham Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is a quiet place for fishing and boating.
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What people in Howard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howard County had 5,732 jobs in 2025, 6.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 67 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Fk Sse weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Howard County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,475
- Nashville School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- WeyerhaeuserLumber238
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Howard Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital188FTE
- CertainTeed Gypsum ManufacturingWallboard, gypsum, manufacturing130
- Mineral Springs School DistrictSchool district116FTE
- Dierks School DistrictSchool district115FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,351 people in all across the county; Umpire has none 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Howard County, 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 Howard County.
Umpire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Umpire$216,182
- 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.
- Umpire6
Zip codes with a Umpire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Umpire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.