Buying the median home in Fayetteville means financing $295,000. Against the area's $62,000 median household income, that works out to a 4.8x price-to-income ratio.
Property taxes in Fayetteville run 0.64% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $1,888 a year, or $157 added to the monthly payment.
Arkansas levies a state income tax on top of the $1,818/month this mortgage runs. Model your real after-tax take-home before deciding how much payment you can carry.
Fayetteville's cost of living index is 88, below the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Fayetteville's median home price runs 37% higher than nearby Little Rock: $215,000 there versus $295,000 here.