Viola, Arkansas.
Typical home $227,221 (+5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,019 +6%
- $215,202$227,221 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,984 +15%
- $198,237$227,221 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.
- Viola$1,193
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Viola, AR rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Viola, Fulton County, Arkansas
Viola is a town of 358 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $41,250 a year and half less, against $42,241 across Fulton County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fulton County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fulton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viola is a very small town in the Ozarks of north Arkansas, in Fulton County. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a fairly large part of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Typical home values are well above what the local incomes might suggest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Fulton County, the largest workplaces include the Salem School District, Fulton County Hospital and the Viola School District. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Bay Creek is a short drive away, and a few other places lie a longer drive off. Mammoth Spring State Park is a protected area, and Grand Gulf State Park is another, both a longer drive away. Winters are cold but bring little snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet, which suits time outdoors in the milder seasons.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Fulton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 1,796 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salem weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fulton County
- Salem School DistrictSchool district145FTE
- Fulton County HospitalCritical access hospital144FTE
- Mammoth Spring School DistrictSchool district130FTE
- Viola School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities84
- North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - SalemDistribution of electric power76
- Eagle Health SystemsSkilled nursing facilities74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 361 people in all across the county; Viola has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Viola’s 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 Fulton County.
Viola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viola$227,221
- 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.
- Viola10
Zip codes with a Viola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viola — 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.