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Wickes, Arkansas.

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What it costs per month · Wickes $1,177/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Arkansas $1,177 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Arkansas$1,177
  • United States$1,922

Living in Wickes, Polk County, Arkansas

Wickes is a town of 637 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $27,411 a year and half less, against $49,191 across Polk County. Unemployment in Polk County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Polk County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 637 in the 2020 census
Household income $27,411 the median, give or take $3,660 · Polk County: $49,191
Unemployment 4.2% Polk County, August 2026; 4.5% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Wickes for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wickes is a very small town in Polk County, Arkansas, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes are well below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with only a dusting of snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.

Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Working from home is rare. Across Polk County, some of the largest workplaces are Nidec Motor Corporation - Mena, Tyson Poultry and Mena Medical Center. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment has eased slightly since a year ago.

Things to do. Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area, a protected area, and Gillham Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Ouachita National Forest, a large protected area, and to Broken Bow Lake, a reservoir with Beavers Bend Resort Park nearby.

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  • 12%of adults have a degree
  • 1%work from home

What people in Polk County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Shops (retail)16%
  • Manufacturing14%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%
  • Building trades7%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 5,758 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 30°; warmest in August, 93° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 30° F M A M J J A 93° 70° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 30°; warmest in August, 93° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 30° F M A M J J A 93° 70° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dequeen weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Polk County

  1. Nidec Motor Corporation - MenaMotors, electric, manufacturing475
  2. Tyson PoultryPoultry processing413
  3. Healthy ConnectionsCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient342
  4. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
  5. Mena School DistrictSchool district295FTE
  6. Mena Medical CenterGeneral hospital200FTE
  7. Cossatot River School DistrictSchool district191FTE
  8. Ouachita River School DistrictSchool district171FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,987 people in all across the county; Wickes has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. HailRelatively high
  3. Winter weatherRelatively high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. LightningRelatively high
  6. TornadoesRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wickes’ 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 Polk County.

Wickes home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Wickes address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wickes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.