diff --git a/dev/tasks/homebrew-formulae/autobrew/apache-arrow.rb b/dev/tasks/homebrew-formulae/autobrew/apache-arrow.rb
index 039d60bac17..cb597154c06 100644
--- a/dev/tasks/homebrew-formulae/autobrew/apache-arrow.rb
+++ b/dev/tasks/homebrew-formulae/autobrew/apache-arrow.rb
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def install
       -DARROW_JSON=ON
       -DARROW_PARQUET=ON
       -DARROW_BUILD_SHARED=OFF
-      -DARROW_JEMALLOC=OFF
+      -DARROW_JEMALLOC=ON
       -DARROW_USE_GLOG=OFF
       -DARROW_PYTHON=OFF
       -DARROW_S3=OFF