Wesley, Arkansas.
Typical home $291,970 (+5.6% in a year). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,586 +6%
- $276,384$291,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,636 +36%
- $215,334$291,970 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.
- Wesley$1,532
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Wesley, AR rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wesley, Madison County, Arkansas
Wesley, in Madison County, had 161 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Madison County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wesley is a very small community in Madison County, Arkansas, in the Ozarks. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and household incomes across Madison County run modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and lows that dip below freezing, while July brings hot summers. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Madison County, the largest workplaces include Butterball, the Huntsville School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Drakes Creek runs in or beside town, a small stream close to home. A longer drive away are bigger draws, such as the White River, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Pea Ridge National Military Park, a historic battlefield site.
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What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 3,619 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntsville Ssw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- ButterballTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked725
- Huntsville School DistrictSchool district399FTE
- Lew Thompson & Sons TruckingTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance251
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters178
- Ducommun LaBarge Technologies,IncOther aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing175
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery62
- Royal Oak EnterprisesCharcoal manufacturing32
- Sutherlands Grand PrairieHome centers, building materials23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,446 people in all across the county; Wesley 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wesley’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 Madison County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
Wesley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wesley$291,970
- 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.
- Wesley8
Zip codes with a Wesley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wesley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.