Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
Typical home $137,352 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$360 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $196 +0%
- $137,157$137,352 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,186 +15%
- $119,166$137,352 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.
- Walnut Ridge$721
- 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 Walnut Ridge, AR rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas
Walnut Ridge is a city of 5,384 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $45,027 a year and half less, against $44,882 across Lawrence County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walnut Ridge is a small city in Lawrence County, Arkansas. Household incomes are close to the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical for the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs well under what it does in much of the country. Winters are cold but not among the harshest, with only a little snow, and summers are hot; rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Walnut Ridge include the Lawrence County School District, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Williams Baptist University. Jobs across Lawrence County grew over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. Most people drive a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Rivers are the closest outdoor draw: the Spring River and the Eleven Point River are both a short drive away. Davidsonville Historic State Park, an archaeological site, and Powhatan Historic State Park, which holds a museum, are also a short drive away. For a longer day out, Crowley's Ridge State Park is a protected area a longer drive from town.
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- 2,089households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 4,131 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 4 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alicia 2NNE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walnut Ridge
- Lawrence County School DistrictSchool district171FTE
- Lawrence Memorial HospitalHospitals, general pediatric170
- Williams Baptist UniversityUniversity or college156
- WalmartDiscount department stores111
- Lawrence Hall Health and RehabilitationNursing homes105
- Walnut RidgeMail and parcel delivery28
- Compass Group23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 437 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Walnut Ridge’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lawrence County.
Walnut Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walnut Ridge$137,352
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Walnut Ridge listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Walnut Ridge22.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walnut Ridge42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Walnut Ridge9
Zip codes with a Walnut Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walnut Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.