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Housing in Shirley

A typical Shirley home is worth about $184,000

Up 3.4% in a year, 19% below the Arkansas typical home.

Typical home value
$184K
▲ 3.4% in a year · AR $227K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$509
AR $1,040

What kind of housing town is Shirley?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Shirley

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$250,000
Typical Shirley home $184K

That covers a typical Shirley home, with $65K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,050
Loan $910Tax $90Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $170 less 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.

Price trend

Up 16% in five years

Slower than Arkansas (21.2%).

ShirleyArkansas
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryShirleyArkansas
2017$108,000$140,000
2018$114,000$145,000
2019$116,000$149,000
2020$119,000$156,000
2021$137,000$172,000
2022$166,000$197,000
2023$168,000$206,000
2024$177,000$212,000
2025$181,000$220,000
2026$182,000$224,000
August 2026$184,000$227,000
Then & now

A typical Shirley home worth $106K in September 2016 is worth about $184K today.

+$78K
+3.4%
past year
+16%
past 5 years
+73.5%
since 2016

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $880

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$670
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,190
4 bedrooms$1,240
13%
of households rent · AR 34%
8
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Cleburne County, AR): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

87% of Shirley households own their home

Half of Shirley’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 87%Rent 13%

Arkansas: 66% own.

1967
typical home built · AR 1987
$509
median property tax bill · AR $1,040
9%
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.

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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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