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Housing in Pleasant Plains

A typical Pleasant Plains home is worth about $172,000

Up 6% in a year, 24% below the Arkansas typical home.

Typical home value
$172K
▲ 6% in a year · AR $227K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,040
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$473
AR $1,040

What kind of housing town is Pleasant Plains?

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

★ What stands out · Price trend

Up 18% in five years

Slower than Arkansas (21.2%).

Pleasant PlainsArkansas
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K2020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryPleasant PlainsArkansas
2020$125,000$156,000
2021$137,000$172,000
2022$155,000$197,000
2023$153,000$206,000
2024$148,000$212,000
2025$154,000$220,000
2026$163,000$224,000
August 2026$172,000$227,000
Then & now

A typical Pleasant Plains home worth $122K in February 2019 is worth about $172K today.

+$50K
+6%
past year
+18%
past 5 years
+41.2%
since 2019

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Pleasant Plains

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$250,000
Typical Pleasant Plains home $172K

That covers a typical Pleasant Plains home, with $78K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$980
Loan $850Tax $80Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $60 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Arkansas typical property tax (0.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

90% of Pleasant Plains households own their home

Half of Pleasant Plains’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

Arkansas: 66% own.

1979
typical home built · AR 1987
$473
median property tax bill · AR $1,040
5%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040

Renters already here pay a median of $1,000.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$790
1 bedroom$800
2 bedrooms$1,040
3 bedrooms$1,370
4 bedrooms$1,380
10%
of households rent · AR 34%
9
renter households
$1,000
median rent paid today · Census

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.

On the market in Pleasant Plains

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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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