Williford, Arkansas.
Typical home $117,865 (-2.4% in a year). Batesville, AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$275 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,936 -2%
- $120,801$117,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,730 -6%
- $125,595$117,865 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.
- Williford$619
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Williford, AR fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williford, Sharp County, Arkansas
Williford is a town of 79 people in Sharp County. Unemployment in Sharp County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sharp County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williford is a very small town in northern Arkansas, where people tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with the coldest weather in January and only light snow, while July brings the hottest days. Rain falls often through the year, so the countryside stays fresh.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades. Shops and manufacturing also provide jobs for people in the area. Job numbers across Sharp County eased a little last year, while unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. South Fork Spring River is a short drive away, a river where people can spend a quiet afternoon outdoors. Powhatan Historic State Park, a museum a longer drive away, shows the area's past. Lake Charles State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a peaceful place to enjoy nature.
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What people in Sharp County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sharp County had 3,950 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hardy weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sharp County
- Highland School DistrictSchool district289FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters245
- Cave City School DistrictSchool district232FTE
- Emerson Professional Tools MFGPower transmission equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers142
- UniFirst CAVE CITY MAT MANUFIndustrial launderer102
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery50
- North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Ash FlatDistribution of electric power25
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 587 people in all across the county; Williford 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williford’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 Sharp County and the Batesville, AR metro.
Williford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williford$117,865
- 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.
- Williford11
Zip codes with a Williford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.