Wilmar, Arkansas.
Typical home $137,773 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$308 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,774 +1%
- $135,999$137,773 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,273 -4%
- $144,046$137,773 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.
- Wilmar$723
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Wilmar, AR rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Wilmar, Drew County, Arkansas
Wilmar is a city of 395 people in Drew County. Unemployment in Drew County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Drew County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilmar is a very small city in southeast Arkansas, in Drew County, where most people know their neighbors by name. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Drew County run on the modest side. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls throughout the year.
Work. Across Drew County, the biggest places to work are the school districts, the hospital and a Walmart, with Monticello School District, Drew Memorial Hospital and SeaArk Boats among the largest. Residents of Wilmar work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Cane Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Seven Devils Lake is a lake a longer drive away as well. History-minded visitors can head to Marks’ Mills Battleground State Park, an archaeological site, also a longer drive from town.
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- 1%work from home
What people in Drew County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Drew County had 6,325 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warren Wsw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Drew County
- Monticello School DistrictSchool district314FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Drew Central School DistrictSchool district186FTE
- Drew Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital166FTE
- SeaArk BoatsBoat yards157
- Interfor Monticello DivisionSawmills130
- Foam HoldingsFoam polystyrene products manufacturing106
- StarkoStructural steel erecting or iron work contractors76
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,159 people in all across the county; Wilmar has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilmar’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 Drew County.
Wilmar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilmar$137,773
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wilmar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilmar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.