Mortgage lending in Craighead County
2,594 mortgages were originated in Craighead County, Arkansas, in 2025.
30-year fixed, this week
6.71%
Freddie Mac's survey average for the week of September 3, 2026 — a year earlier it was 6.56%, and the past year ranged 5.98–6.71%. The figures below are from 2025 filings and do not move with the market. Rate history
- Loans originated
- 2,594
- Median rate
- 6.625%
- Median lender fees
- $5,235
The going rate is the federal "average prime offer rate" for a comparable loan; 0.5 means half a percentage point above it.
- Median loan amount
- $175,000
- Above the going rate (spread over APOR)
- 0.290
- Paid discount points
- 34%
- Received lender credits
- 17%
- Purchases / refinances
- 63.6% / 23.6%
- Conventional / FHA / VA
- 67.4% / 22.5% / 7.7%
Figures are medians of loans actually originated in 2025, as reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. They describe what borrowers received, not what you would be offered: HMDA contains no credit scores, so these numbers cannot be read as pricing for any individual. Lender fees are reported for 63.7% of loans here — see methodology.
Loan limits here in 2026
- Conforming limit
- $832,750
- FHA limit
- $541,287
- Median home price
- $200,000
- That home, 20% down
- $160,000
A median-priced home with 20% down leaves $672,750 of room under the conforming limit, so the ceiling rarely binds on an ordinary purchase.
Borrow more than $832,750 and the loan becomes jumbo — outside agency rules, priced by each lender on its own terms. How limits work
Median price is HUD's figure for the 2026 limit calculation, not a live market quote.
Who lent here
Lenders with at least 50 loans in Craighead County, ranked by volume.
| Lender | Loans | Median fees | Median rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arvest Bank | 213 | $4,246 | 6.875% |
| Simmons Bank | 118 | — | 6.870% |
| First Community Bank | 102 | $5,953 | 6.813% |
| Rocket Mortgage, LLC | 98 | $5,210 | 6.433% |
| United Shore Financial Services, LLC | 83 | $8,544 | 6.250% |
| Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation | 82 | $9,226 | 6.250% |
| First National Bank | 78 | — | 7.500% |
| Firsttrust Home Loans, Inc. | 77 | $6,263 | 6.375% |
| Southern Bank | 75 | — | 7.250% |
| Cadence Bank | 70 | — | 7.188% |
What lenders charged here
Lender fees on a $175,000 loan, based on what was actually charged in Craighead County — not a rule of thumb.
From 1,652 loans where fees were reported. This is what the lender charges — sections A and B of a Loan Estimate. Title, appraisal, taxes and the escrow deposit your lender collects up front for future tax and insurance bills are extra and not in these figures. Compare two offers