A typical Newport home is worth about $93,000
Down 6% in a year, 59% below the Arkansas typical home.
What kind of housing town is Newport?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.7 years of income
Less than across Arkansas (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Newport home, with $52K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $360 more than owning.
How Newport ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Newport’s typical property tax (0.45% 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 $597, 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 (Independence County, AR): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Down 8.5% in five years
Slower than Arkansas (21.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Newport | Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $70,000 | $140,000 |
| 2018 | $71,000 | $145,000 |
| 2019 | $74,000 | $149,000 |
| 2020 | $85,000 | $156,000 |
| 2021 | $96,000 | $172,000 |
| 2022 | $106,000 | $197,000 |
| 2023 | $102,000 | $206,000 |
| 2024 | $99,000 | $212,000 |
| 2025 | $102,000 | $220,000 |
| 2026 | $94,000 | $224,000 |
| August 2026 | $93,000 | $227,000 |
A typical Newport home worth $63K in August 2016 is worth about $93K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
7 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 7 new homes in Newport in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $2.1 million to build. That's 0.9 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Arkansas (7.6). Over the past 10 years, Newport has permitted 70 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Newport gained 126 residents while 54 new homes were permitted: about 2.3 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. 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) | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 6 | $1.2 million |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $651,000 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2 | 8 | $970,000 |
| 2019 | 23 | 23 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $390,000 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $367,000 |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $367,000 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $293,000 |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $220,000 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $293,000 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $220,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $375,000 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $675,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $154,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $82,000 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $228,000 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $713,000 |
| 2005 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2004 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $682,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $707,000 |
| 2000 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $771,000 |
Newport's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.
How Newport ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
2 of Newport’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Newport’s homes were built before 1971.
Arkansas: 66% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
Newport vs. its neighbors
The towns that share a border with Newport. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | $93K | −6% | $880 | 7 | $34,764 |
| Diaz | $110K | −9.7% | $880 | 0 | $49,120 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
On the market in Newport
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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. 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.