Home prices in Fort Smith run 58% below the national median: $175,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $48,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 3.6x.
Factor in $89/month for property tax in Fort Smith, based on the area's 0.61% effective rate applied to the median home price. That's $1,068 annually.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Arkansas taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,074/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Fort Smith track at 79 against the national 100 baseline, below average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Fort Smith's median home price runs 19% lower than nearby Little Rock: $215,000 there versus $175,000 here.