West Fork, Arkansas.
Typical home $308,786 (+4.1% in a year). Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$968 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,171 +4%
- $296,615$308,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,130 +31%
- $235,655$308,786 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.
- West Fork$1,621
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in West Fork, AR rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Fork, Washington County, Arkansas
West Fork is a city of 2,331 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $77,566 a year and half less, against $70,639 across Washington County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Fork is a small city in the hills of Washington County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few households live below the poverty line. Incomes run higher than across the county, and typical home values are well above what many older homeowners elsewhere in Arkansas would expect. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are hot; rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Arkansas, the Springdale School District and Washington Regional Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. Commutes are of a middling length, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, the University of Arkansas football stadium, and the Illinois River, which is popular for time on the water. Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, also a short drive off, is a historic Civil War site that suits a quiet afternoon. For a longer outing, Devil's Den State Park is a protected area of Ozark woods and rock that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 1,145households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 122,001 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 6 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville Drake Field weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- University of ArkansasUniversity or college5,766
- Springdale School DistrictSchool district3,163FTE
- Washington Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,889FTE
- Fayetteville School DistrictSchool district1,669FTE
- Springdale Processing1,568
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,545
- Central StatesWarehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing1,306
- Tyson Sales and DistributionGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload1,244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 219 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 34,442 people in all across the county; West Fork has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Fork’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 Washington County and the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro.
West Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Fork$308,786
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 West Fork 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.
- West Fork26.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Fork43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Fork9
Zip codes with a West Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Fork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.