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Housing in Swifton

A typical Swifton home is worth about $84,000

Down 11.3% in a year, 63% below the Arkansas typical home.

Typical home value
$84K
▼ 11.3% in a year · AR $227K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$368
AR $1,040

What kind of housing town is Swifton?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.5 years of income

Less than across Arkansas (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$241,000
Typical Swifton home $84K

That covers a typical Swifton home, with $156K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$470
Loan $420Tax $30Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $410 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Swifton’s typical property tax (0.46% 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

Home values since 2023

Typical home value by month.

SwiftonArkansas
$75K$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K20242026
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JanuarySwiftonArkansas
2024$102,000$212,000
2025$104,000$220,000
2026$88,000$224,000
August 2026$84,000$227,000
Then & now

A typical Swifton home worth $103K in December 2023 is worth about $84K today.

−$19K
−11.3%
past year
−18%
since 2023

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

Renters already here pay a median of $573, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$630
1 bedroom$670
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,060
4 bedrooms$1,170
38%
of households rent · AR 34%
121
renter households
54%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · AR 45%
18%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$573
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Jackson 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

62% of Swifton households own their home

Half of Swifton’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 62%Rent 38%

Arkansas: 66% own.

1979
typical home built · AR 1987
$368
median property tax bill · AR $1,040
0.46%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AR 0.55%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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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