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About Elkins
City in Arkansas, United StatesElkins is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Boston Mountains, deep in the Ozark Mountains. A combination of the former unincorporated communities of Harris and Hood, Elkins was established in 1964. Located immediately east of Fayetteville in the Northwest Arkansas metropolitan statistical area, Elkins had a population of 3,602 as of the 2020 census.
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Housing in Elkins
The typical Elkins home is worth about $287,000, up 3.2% in a year, 26% above the Arkansas typical home.
A strong seller's market
Safety in Elkins
Safety Grade C+
Elkins reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 56% report less. Within Arkansas, it does better than 71% of towns.
Schools in Elkins
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The public schools Elkins’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 88% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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