White Hall, Arkansas.
Typical home $136,594 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,000 . Pine Bluff, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$338 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $633 +0%
- $135,961$136,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,669 +7%
- $127,925$136,594 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.
- White Hall$717
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in White Hall, AR rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Hall, Jefferson County, Arkansas
White Hall is a city of 5,581 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $78,092 a year and half less, against $51,096 across Jefferson County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Hall is a small city in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than are rented, and typical rents sit well under what many US cities see. Winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow, and summers are hot and rainy through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in government, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in White Hall are the White Hall School District, Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital and Brookshire's. Jobs across Jefferson County have slipped a little in the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are Golden Lion Stadium, a stadium for local games, and the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, a museum. The Community Theatre is also close by for an evening out. For a longer drive, Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park is an archaeological site that gives a look at the area's earliest history.
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- 2,241households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 24,907 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pine Bluff weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White Hall
- White Hall School DistrictSchool district361FTE
- McGeorge ContractingOverpass construction332
- Jefferson Regional Specialty HospitalHospital136
- OasisNursing homes85
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers64
- BlueScope Buildings North AmericaBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing36
- SFEFood services24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 677 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White Hall’s 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 Jefferson County and the Pine Bluff, AR metro.
White Hall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Hall$136,594
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 White Hall 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.
- White Hall22.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- White Hall96
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- White Hall15
Zip codes with a White Hall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Hall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.