Where to Live if You Work at the University of Arkansas

The campus

Where campus is

The University of Arkansas is at 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Every time on this page is measured to Old Main, near the heart of campus. Fall 2026 enrollment was 33,990 students, per the university.

The university reports more than 1,500 faculty and more than 3,500 staff, per the Office of the Provost.

Read the university's own page: University of Arkansas Quick Facts

Adam's Take

On foot and by bike

Walking and biking to campus

From Wilson Park, Old Main is about 0.9 miles, roughly 20 minutes on foot, per a 71B Team walking estimate using OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026. That route uses the Razorback Regional Greenway and the Arkansas Avenue sidepath. Dickson Street is about 17 minutes on foot from Wilson Park and the Fayetteville Square about 23. Hills will slow a real walk.

Fayetteville has more than 50 miles of paved walking and biking trails, and the Razorback Regional Greenway runs about 9.4 miles through the city as part of a 40-mile path to Bella Vista, per the City of Fayetteville. Every Greenway section in Fayetteville has lighting, per the city. Campus connects to the Greenway near Arkansas Avenue and Maple Street, per university news.

For more on the neighborhoods closest to campus, read our Wilson Park page and our Mount Sequoyah page. Mount Sequoyah is about 5 minutes from Old Main by car, and its 97-acre Mount Sequoyah Woods park has about 4.5 miles of natural-surface trail, per the City of Fayetteville.

Drive times

Commute times to Old Main

How we measured. We took each city's center point and ran the route to Old Main with OpenStreetMap routing. The times assume no traffic and are rounded to the nearest 5 minutes. A weekday morning will run longer, so drive it at the hour you would actually leave. Fayetteville's center point sits close to campus, so its row is short. Your own drive depends on where in Fayetteville you live.

Drive times: 71B Team estimate using OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026. Median sale price: per Redfin, for the three months ending September 2026, for the whole city. Cave Springs and Tontitown have few sales, so their medians move more than the others. We leave a price out where we have no confirmed median. School districts: per the Arkansas Division of Finance and Administration 2025 millage report. District lines cut across city lines, so confirm any address with the state district finder.

City by city

City by city

Fayetteville. The median sale price was about $405,000, per Redfin, for the three months ending September 2026. That covers the whole city. Homes in Wilson Park typically run $600,000 to $800,000, per the 71B Team, as of November 2026. See homes for sale in Fayetteville, our Clabber Creek page and our Fayetteville market report.

Farmington. About 10 minutes and 5.5 miles. Read our Farmington page.

Prairie Grove. About 20 minutes and 11.7 miles. Read our Prairie Grove page.

Springdale. About 20 minutes and 9.6 miles. The median sale price was about $354,000, per Redfin, for the three months ending September 2026.

Rogers and Bentonville. About 35 minutes each. It can make sense if your partner works in Benton County.

Two-job couples

If one of you works at Tyson or Arkansas Children's

Old Main is about 15 minutes from Tyson Foods' headquarters and about 15 minutes from Arkansas Children's Northwest, without traffic, per 71B Team estimates using OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026. For the other side of the drive, read Where to Live if You Work at Tyson Foods HQ.

Schools

Schools near campus

Fayetteville is in the Fayetteville School District, with a few edges in the Farmington, Greenland and Springdale districts, per the Arkansas Division of Finance and Administration 2025 millage report. District lines do not follow city lines. Confirm any address with the state district finder before you make an offer.

Relocating

If you are relocating for the job

Walk or bike the route before you buy, and drive it at the hour you would actually leave. Our drive times assume no traffic. If you can, rent for a short stretch first, so you learn the neighborhood. Then call the 71B Team at 479-435-5353 and we will build a short list. Our Fayetteville relocation guide and our post on how the university affects local home prices are good next reads.

Other employer guides: Walmart Home Office, Tyson Foods HQ, J.B. Hunt and Arkansas Children's Northwest. Or compare all five on our employer commute guide.