Helena - West Helena, AR
72342 · Helena - West Helena, AR has a HavenScore of 50 — population, income, and price trajectory all line up on the growth side.
This ZIP has fewer than 5,000 residents, so it isn’t ranked against larger markets. The HavenScore is shown for reference.
Overall view active — Equal weight across affordability, growth, risk, momentum.
Sub-scores below recompute with these weights
Snapshot
Numbers at a glance
Composition
Pillars behind the score
Signals
What's driving this score
- Affordable vs. income1.1× income — below the national median
- Declining prices-11.2% year-over-year
- Population outflow-12.7% net — people leaving
- Elevated unemployment7.6% unemployment rate
- Widespread price cuts42% of listings cutting price
- Slow-moving market67 days on market — homes sitting longer
Market conditions
Buyer's Market
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Pulse
What's changed in the last 90 days
Metrics
The raw numbers
$42,917
▼ -11.20% YoY—
23
67 days
+41.67%
1.1×
$39,191
3,971
-33.33%
Trend
Where it's been
Forecast
Where it's heading
The HavenScore Forecast Model (v1) projects this ZIP’s median value at 3-, 6-, and 12-month horizons, with 80% prediction intervals.
Payment
What you'd owe each month
20% down · 30-yr fixed · 6.51% · tax 0.62%
Rent data isn’t published for this ZIP, so we can’t compute a rent-vs-buy gap.
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Run the numbers
Comparable ZIPs
Same shape, lower entry
ZIPs the score groups near 72342 on Affordability and Growth — sorted by lowest median value.
Sources
Every number, traced
Every metric above is sourced from public datasets, normalized against the national ZIP distribution. Home values and rents refresh monthly; demographics refresh annually.
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