Pea Ridge, Arkansas

Pea Ridge has no short-term-rental-specific ordinance and no STR permit, license, or occupancy cap of any kind; STRs are not expressly prohibited and appear to fall under general residential and business use. The City Council debated a lodging-only Advertising & Promotion tax in February 2023, but the ordinance failed on a split vote and a revised version was tabled, with officials arguing the city isn’t a tourist destination, so there is still no city-level occupancy tax.

Pea Ridge is a small, fast-growing Benton County bedroom community, population 9,140, about 5 miles from Pea Ridge National Military Park, site of the March 1862 Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, which drew roughly 80,455 visitors in 2020 and historically over 90,000. Visitors skew toward Civil War and heritage tourists, hikers, cyclists, and equestrians using the park’s trail system. Pea Ridge’s population has grown roughly 80% since the 2020 census.

StaySTRA tracks Pea Ridge’s ADR, occupancy, and revenue at a shared regional level with Gentry, Lowell, Prairie Grove, West Fork, and Winslow, all Northwest Arkansas towns, so the figures below describe the Northwest Arkansas area STR market. In June 2026, that area STR market posted a blended ADR of $219.67 and 60.4% occupancy, with average monthly revenue of $3,716/listing. Occupancy is down 2.30 percentage points and revenue is down 2.63% year over year, while ADR is roughly flat (up 0.93%).

One note on the annual data below: the 2026 row is a January-through-June average, and this cluster’s revenue stays strong into October (fall visitation), so the partial-year figure likely understates the eventual full-year 2026 average. Bedroom mix, listing-type breakdown, and the top-property-manager list are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Pea Ridge, so this profile omits those breakdowns.