A typical St. Charles home is worth roughly $119,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is St. Charles?
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What it takes to buy in St. Charles
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That covers a typical St. Charles home, with $130K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $210 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.
A two-bedroom rents for about $890
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Arkansas County, AR): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in St. Charles in 2025. Over the past 10 years, St. Charles has permitted 4 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, St. Charles's population fell by 23 even though 2 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. 19% of St. Charles's homes are seasonal or vacation homes, which adds housing without adding residents. 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $303,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $303,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $220,000 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $220,000 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
St. Charles's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
87% of St. Charles households own their home
Half of St. Charles’s homes were built before 1981.
Arkansas: 66% own.
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. 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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.