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About Lowell
City in Arkansas, United StatesLowell is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. Located within the Ozarks, the first settlement was along Old Wire Road in the 1840s, and although destroyed during the Civil War, the community was reestablished by J. R. McClure and thrived when the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway came through the area in the 1880s. The city is a growing bedroom community within the rapidly growing Northwest Arkansas region. Lowell is the headquarters of trucking company J.B. Hunt. Lowell's population was 9,839 at the 2020 census, an increase of 34% since 2010.
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Housing in Lowell
The typical Lowell home is worth about $355,000, about the same as a year ago, 56% above the Arkansas typical home.
A strong seller's market
Safety in Lowell
Safety Grade B
Lowell reports less crime per resident than 60% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Health in Lowell
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of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 13 are too close to call.
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Schools in Lowell
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The public schools Lowell’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 78% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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