Waldron, Arkansas.
Typical home $145,803 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$395 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,172 +7%
- $135,631$145,803 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,322 +15%
- $126,481$145,803 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.
- Waldron$765
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Waldron, AR rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas
Waldron is a city of 3,386 people in Scott County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Scott County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waldron is a small city and the seat of Scott County, in the Ouachita Mountains country of western Arkansas. The population is on the younger side for a small town, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes across Scott County run below the county-level picture for much of the country, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Waldron are the Waldron School District, Harps Food Store and Mercy Hospital Waldron. Unemployment across Scott County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are creeks and rivers a short drive away, including the Poteau River and the Petit Jean River. A longer drive brings you to Queen Wilhelmina State Park, a protected area, and to the much larger Ouachita National Forest. Blue Mountain Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,389households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 2,980 jobs in 2025, 4.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waldron weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Waldron
- Waldron School DistrictSchool district280FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery101
- Mercy Hospital WaldronCritical access hospital43FTE
- Hightower & Shepard Group PropcoAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities37
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 199 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Waldron’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 Scott County.
Waldron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waldron$145,803
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Waldron listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Waldron15.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Waldron38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Waldron8
Zip codes with a Waldron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waldron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.