West Memphis, Arkansas.
Typical home $131,298 (+5.3% in a year), asking rent $1,200 . Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$301 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,615 +5%
- $124,683$131,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,911 +10%
- $119,387$131,298 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 Memphis$689
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in West Memphis, AR rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Memphis, Crittenden County, Arkansas
West Memphis is a city of 24,520 people in Crittenden County. Half its households earn more than $42,674 a year and half less, against $55,358 across Crittenden County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in West Memphis was 5.9% in August 2026, and Crittenden County had 10.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Memphis is a city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, with a population on the younger side. Incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line, while fewer households own their homes than are renting. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in town are the West Memphis School District, Walmart and Delaware North Companies. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs, with a typical commute that is fairly short.
Things to do. Much of what draws people out is a short drive away in Memphis. The Blues Hall of Fame and the National Civil Rights Museum are both museums close by, and the Orpheum Theatre is a short drive away for an evening out. The Memphis Zoo is a longer drive. Winters are cool and summers hot, with only a little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
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- 9,376households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crittenden County had 17,907 jobs in 2025, 10.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Memphis weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Memphis
- Delaware North CompaniesOther gambling industries868
- West Memphis School DistrictSchool district636FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters377
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors365
- West Memphis AR TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air353
- DC18 DC18 West MemphisGeneral warehousing and storage309
- Arkansas State University Mid-SouthTwo-year college181
- Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of West MemphisMental health hospitals178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,406 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 stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of West MemphisRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of West MemphisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Memphis’ 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 Crittenden County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
West Memphis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Memphis$131,298
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 West Memphis listings, and the typical home goes pending in 54 days — 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.
- West Memphis18.94%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Memphis107
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Memphis22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a West Memphis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Memphis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.