Yell County, Arkansas Real Estate

In September 2026, 19 homes closed in Yell County at a median of $159,500. The median home took 70 days to go under contract, and sellers got about 94.2% of asking price. There were 88 homes for sale, enough to last about 6.3 months at that pace. RPR (Realtors Property Resource) calls that a balanced market.

Market data: RPR, September 2026 (Yell County, pulled October 10, 2026). Single-family homes, condos and townhomes.

Yell County had 20,263 people at the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau's 2025 estimate is 19,956. It has two county seats, Dardanelle and Danville, and seven incorporated towns:

• Dardanelle, on the Arkansas River across from Russellville.
• Danville, on the Petit Jean River.
• Ola, Plainview, Havana, Belleville and Corinth.

Centerville and Rover are among the unincorporated communities.

Mount Nebo State Park is seven miles west of Dardanelle on Highway 155.

Lake Dardanelle State Park has a second site on the Dardanelle side of the lake, with 18 campsites.

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge covers 7,055 acres along the Arkansas River, about five miles downstream of Dardanelle.

Nimrod Lake, 3,550 acres, is on the Perry County line, and part of the Ouachita National Forest is in the county.

Wayne Farms, now Wayne-Sanderson Farms, has been in Danville since 1970.

Four districts are based in the county: Dardanelle, Danville, Two Rivers (Ola and Plainview) and Western Yell County (Havana and Belleville).

District lines out in the county don't always follow the town name on the mailbox, so if a particular school matters to you, check the exact address with the district before you make an offer. I'll help you do that.

The state publishes a report card for every public school at myschoolinfo.arkansas.gov.

A $200,000 home inside Dardanelle city limits is assessed at $40,000 (20% of value). At 55.2 mills (a mill is $1 per $1,000 of assessed value) that is $2,208 a year before credits, and $1,608 after the $600 homestead credit for a primary residence. Those are 2025 rates, billed in 2026.

Danville's total is lower, at 48.5 mills. The full table, the homestead credit and what changes when a home sells are on my property tax page.

I'm a Realtor, not a tax advisor. Confirm any parcel with the county assessor before you rely on a number.

I haven't closed a sale in Yell County yet, and I'd rather tell you that than pretend. I've done buyer property research around Belleville, and I've done more than 25 closings since January 2025, most of them in the River Valley.

What you'd get here is the same homework I do everywhere: recent sales pulled before we ever talk price, and a phone that gets answered.