Today's rate snapshot
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How rates trended in Arkansas
Daily average across every credit union lending in AR, past 90 days. Dashed line is the national FRED benchmark, plotted on the date FRED assigns each reading (it is published about a day later).
Mortgage rates in Arkansas
Credit unions lending in Arkansas
FAIRWINDS Credit Union offers nationwide membership to anyone in the United States, regardless of location, who values financial stability and freedom.
GTE Financial is open to everyone in the United States through a one-time $10 membership to the CU Savers educational club. You can also join if you live, work, or attend school in select Tampa-area zip codes, or if you are associated with a Community Partner employer.
Affinity Federal Credit Union is open to anyone nationwide who makes a one-time $5 donation to the Affinity Foundation or joins a qualifying association. Employees of over 2,000 partner businesses and family members of current members are also eligible to join.
Connexus Credit Union is open to anyone in the United States through a one-time $5 donation to the Connexus Association. Membership is also available to employees of specific partner companies, residents of select counties in Wisconsin and Illinois, and those who live in several cities across Minnesota and Ohio.
MIT Federal Credit Union is open to the MIT community, including students, employees, and alumni, as well as several partner organizations like Draper and Lincoln Labs. Anyone else in the U.S. can also qualify for membership by joining the American Consumer Council during the application process.
AmeriCU is open to anyone nationwide who joins the AmeriCU Charitable Foundation. Membership is also available to those who live, work, worship, or attend school in 24 New York counties, as well as U.S. military members, veterans, and their families.
AlaTrust Credit Union is open to anyone in the US via a $25 donation to the AlaTrust4U Foundation. Residents, workers, or worshippers in 12 specific Alabama counties, as well as Alabama educators and employees of participating sponsor groups, are also eligible to join.
Fortera Credit Union is open to anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school in several counties across Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as select regions in Alabama and Arkansas. Additionally, nationwide eligibility is available through a qualifying association membership with no out-of-pocket cost to the member.
NASA Federal Credit Union is open to anyone in the U.S. through a complimentary one-year membership to the National Space Society. It also serves employees and retirees of NASA and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as over 900 partner companies.
Membership is open to the entire Stanford community, including faculty, staff, students, volunteers, and alumni of Stanford University, as well as employees of Stanford Health Care and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Membership also extends to employees of specific companies such as Google, Facebook-Meta, Tesla, Genentech, SAP, NVIDIA, Amazon, Oracle, and Visa. Stanford Federal Credit Union
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Common questions
Twice a week — every Monday and Thursday. We re-read the publicly posted rate pages from every credit union that lends in Arkansasstarting around 11 a.m. Central.
Yes — credit unions require membership before closing. Most let you open a share account and apply for a mortgage on the same day.
We display both when the credit union publishes them. See our APR vs. interest rate vs. points guide.
Most large banks don't publish mortgage rates online — they quote per applicant. Credit unions almost always post theirs publicly, which is why they dominate our comparison.
How do credit union mortgage rates in Arkansas compare to bank rates?
We don't publish bank rates, so the fairest comparison available is the national average across all lenders. Freddie Mac's weekly PMMS average puts the 30-year fixed rate at 7.24% as of October 29, 2026.
Of the 36 credit unions listed here lending in Arkansas with a 30-year fixed mortgage, 12 advertise an interest rate with no points, no buydown and no 1%-down restriction. Among those 12, the median rate is 7.125% and the lowest is 6.875%, at AMERICU. 10 of the 12 are below the national average.
We narrow the set because a rate bought down with points is not comparable to one without points.
One caveat in our favour and one against. Freddie Mac's average includes credit unions alongside banks, so it is a blended figure — if credit union rates sit below the blend, they sit further below a bank-only average. Against: since November 17, 2022, PMMS has used actual mortgage loan applications rather than a lender survey. Our figures are advertised rates, typically a lender's best tier, not application rates. Freddie Mac also stopped publishing average points then, so we can't confirm its point structure, while every rate in our comparison set is a zero-point rate. Freddie Mac's methodology.
More on reading these numbers: APR vs. interest rate vs. points and how we collect rates.
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