A typical Des Arc home is worth roughly $91,000
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in 2025.
What stands out about housing in Des Arc
A typical home costs 2.9 years of income
About the same as across Arkansas. Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Des Arc home, with $37K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $370 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Des Arc’s typical property tax (0.50% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $880
Renters already here pay a median of $424, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Prairie County, AR): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
4 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in Des Arc in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.2 million to build. That's 2.5 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Arkansas (7.6). Over the past 10 years, Des Arc has permitted 23 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Des Arc gained 188 residents while 21 new homes were permitted: about 9 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across Arkansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $296,000 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $420,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $286,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $71,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $285,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $475,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $428,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $235,000 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $700,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $182,000 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $415,000 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $527,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $178,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $178,000 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $341,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $159,000 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $594,000 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $244,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
3 of Des Arc’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Des Arc’s homes were built before 1976.
Arkansas: 66% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
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What Des Arc buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.