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Housing in Calico Rock

A typical Calico Rock home is worth about $197,000

Up 3.2% in a year, 13% below the Arkansas typical home.

Typical home value
$197K
▲ 3.2% in a year · AR $227K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$700
AR $1,040

What kind of housing town is Calico Rock?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 7.4 years of income

More than across Arkansas (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$107,000
Typical Calico Rock home $197K

That’s $90K short of a typical Calico Rock home.

The typical home, each month
$1,160
Loan $980Tax $120Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $270 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Calico Rock’s typical property tax (0.75% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 17.4% in five years

Slower than Arkansas (21.2%).

Calico RockArkansas
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryCalico RockArkansas
2017$119,000$140,000
2018$123,000$145,000
2019$129,000$149,000
2020$133,000$156,000
2021$151,000$172,000
2022$176,000$197,000
2023$178,000$206,000
2024$182,000$212,000
2025$192,000$220,000
2026$197,000$224,000
August 2026$197,000$227,000
Then & now

A typical Calico Rock home worth $114K in September 2016 is worth about $197K today.

+$83K
+3.2%
past year
+17.4%
past 5 years
+72.7%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $890

Renters already here pay a median of $405, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$690
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,290
39%
of households rent · AR 34%
127
renter households
49%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · AR 45%
40%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$405
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Baxter County, AR): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

61% of Calico Rock households own their home

Half of Calico Rock’s homes were built before 1982.

Owners and renters
Own 61%Rent 39%

Arkansas: 66% own.

1982
typical home built · AR 1987
$700
median property tax bill · AR $1,040
0.75%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AR 0.55%
7%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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