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U.S. Census Bureau · 2025 Population Estimates Program (PEP)

Arkansas County Population — 2025 PEP

July 1, 2025 resident population estimates for 75 counties. State total (sum of these county estimates): 3,114,791 persons.

Separate 2025 TIGER/Line county boundaries validate county identity; these are not ACS 2024 survey estimates.

Official Vintage 2025 county identities and unsimplified TIGER coordinates; separate-period ACS housing is joined only by exact full GEOID. Original 2020 counts require separately evidenced compatible geography; incompatible observations remain null with reasons. The revised April estimates base is not an original census count; no boundary allocation is invented.

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2025 Census PEP county estimates, 2020–2025 series; counts are persons, migration counts are persons, published rates are per 1,000, and unavailable values remain null (not zero). 2020 rates are unavailable for the partial-year interval. County totals and characteristics are verified against the pinned raw Census CSV receipts and independent 2025 county geometry.

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Official state totals and county summaries

Official NST July 1, 2025 state total: 3,114,791 persons (SUMLEV 040, PEP Vintage 2025). County sum: 3,114,791 persons; comparison status: equal.

Official NST July 2020: 3,014,399 persons; July 2020–July 2025 change: +100,392 persons; growth: 3.330415 percent (denominator: official July 2020 population).

County July 2024–July 2025: Growing: 37 · Shrinking: 38 · Unchanged: 0 · Missing: 0. Median county growth: -0.007082 percent.

Largest county: Pulaski County (GEOID 05119): 404611 persons.

Fastest county growth: Benton County (GEOID 05007): 3.277319 percent.

Greatest numeric increase: Benton County (GEOID 05007): 10553 persons.

no minimum population; missing excluded per measure; median of county percentages, not population weighted; equal values use ascending full GEOID.

Official state demographics

Resident population · SUMLEV 040 · July 1, 2025 · Census PEP Vintage 2025. Denominator for every share: 3,114,791 resident persons. Six exclusive race groups; Hispanic origin overlaps race and must not be added to it. Release: June 2026; exact day unproved; PEP estimates have no ACS sampling MOE.

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Official state age, sex, race and overlapping Hispanic origin
MeasureCountShare
Female1,587,683 persons50.972377 percent
Male1,527,108 persons49.027623 percent
Ages 18–24296,779 persons9.528055 percent
Ages 25–44793,883 persons25.487521 percent
Ages 45–64733,395 persons23.545561 percent
Ages 65 and older591,966 persons19.004999 percent
Under 18698,768 persons22.433865 percent
American Indian or Alaska Native alone47,331 persons1.519556 percent
Asian alone68,130 persons2.187306 percent
Black or African American alone473,485 persons15.201180 percent
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone18,972 persons0.609094 percent
Two or more races157,940 persons5.070645 percent
White alone2,348,933 persons75.412219 percent
Hispanic (any race)310,595 persons9.971616 percent
Not Hispanic2,804,196 persons90.028384 percent

Official state median age: 39.0 years. Published state SYASEX median age; not a county aggregation, not ACS.

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Revised April 1, 2020 estimates base (official NST): 3,011,530 persons; county base sum: 3,011,530 persons; comparison: equal. This is not the original decennial census count.

Original April 1, 2020 Census count: 62 compatible counties; 13 unavailable. Published Census county centers-of-population POPULATION, original 2020 Gazetteer and official 2020–2025 geographic-change evidence; no boundary allocation. Original count, revised April estimates base and July 2020 estimate are separate observations. Documentation: November 2021; exact file release day unproved; retrieval is not release. Official original count source. Original 2020 Gazetteer identity plus Census geographic-change notes 2014–2025; no county-level change recorded from 2020 onward, exact full modern name, and original count required. Any recorded county-level change or referenced counterparty is conservatively unavailable, including unresolved internal redistricting. Same GEOID alone is insufficient. Not a claim of identical cartographic coordinates; no invented allocations.

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PEP population · persons · July 1, 2025. Denominator: none. Calculation/source: CO POPESTIMATEy. Vintage 2025; null with metric_status reason; measured zero remains zero; no imputation.

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July 1, 2025 · Pulaski County (GEOID 05119). Same-period county population is the share denominator. Hispanic origin overlaps race; do not add origin to race counts. Other overlapping classifications are not additive. Official county median age is from PEP AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT, not ACS.

County demographics: counts, shares and official median age
Classification / sourceCount or statisticShare / status
Sex · PEP male193,211 persons47.752286 percent
Sex · PEP female211,400 persons52.247714 percent
Age bands · PEP under1889,014 persons21.999896 percent
Age bands · PEP age18 2435,732 persons8.831198 percent
Age bands · PEP age25 44110,380 persons27.280524 percent
Age bands · PEP age45 6493,876 persons23.201544 percent
Age bands · PEP age65plus75,609 persons18.686837 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP white alone219,330 persons54.207622 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP black alone149,974 persons37.066219 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP aian alone4,463 persons1.103035 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP asian alone11,975 persons2.959633 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP nhpi alone317 persons0.078347 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP two or more18,552 persons4.585145 percent
Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP hispanic any race36,837 persons9.104300 percent
Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP not hispanic367,774 persons90.895700 percent
Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP white alone or combination236,197 persons58.376317 percent
Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP not hispanic white alone191,549 persons47.341521 percent
Official county median age · AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT38.8 yearsNot a share; not ACS or an average of county medians

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2025 county population rankings

All 75 county estimates are present without JavaScript, ranked by 2025 population (largest first). Signed changes compare July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025. Unavailable is not zero; equal values break ties by GEOID (ascending).

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Arkansas County Population — 2025 PEP — July 1, 2025; rank reflects the selected ordering
RankCountyGEOIDPopulation (persons)Signed change (persons)Signed change (percent)
1Pulaski County05119404,611+1217 persons+0.301690%
2Benton County05007332,554+10553 persons+3.277319%
3Washington County05143271,213+3843 persons+1.437334%
4Faulkner County05045133,979+1812 persons+1.370993%
5Saline County05125133,288+1519 persons+1.152775%
6Sebastian County05131130,641+318 persons+0.244009%
7Craighead County05031116,957+579 persons+0.497517%
8Garland County0505199,695-215 persons-0.215194%
9White County0514580,085+957 persons+1.209433%
10Lonoke County0508576,664+274 persons+0.358686%
11Pope County0511564,976+310 persons+0.479386%
12Jefferson County0506962,987-618 persons-0.971622%
13Crawford County0503362,657+401 persons+0.644115%
14Greene County0505547,411+391 persons+0.831561%
15Crittenden County0503546,210-579 persons-1.237470%
16Baxter County0500542,982+123 persons+0.286988%
17Miller County0509142,357-3 persons-0.007082%
18Independence County0506338,785+216 persons+0.560035%
19Boone County0500938,628+97 persons+0.251745%
20Mississippi County0509337,828-346 persons-0.906376%
21Union County0513936,926-195 persons-0.525309%
22Hot Spring County0505933,451+157 persons+0.471556%
23Carroll County0501529,263+174 persons+0.598164%
24Johnson County0507126,225-22 persons-0.083819%
25Cleburne County0502325,672+31 persons+0.120900%
26Poinsett County0511122,483+165 persons+0.739314%
27Columbia County0502721,894-120 persons-0.545108%
28St. Francis County0512321,800-139 persons-0.633575%
29Ouachita County0510321,731-125 persons-0.571925%
30Logan County0508321,633+102 persons+0.473736%
31Conway County0502921,393+5 persons+0.023378%
32Clark County0501920,938-14 persons-0.066819%
33Yell County0514919,956-147 persons-0.731234%
34Polk County0511319,486+51 persons+0.262413%
35Hempstead County0505719,080-174 persons-0.903708%
36Randolph County0512118,876-68 persons-0.358953%
37Grant County0505318,756+159 persons+0.854977%
38Madison County0508718,410+348 persons+1.926697%
39Sharp County0513518,122+20 persons+0.110485%
40Ashley County0500317,831-193 persons-1.070794%
41Franklin County0504717,725+123 persons+0.698784%
42Marion County0508917,593+18 persons+0.102418%
43Drew County0504317,054+66 persons+0.388510%
44Jackson County0506716,741+103 persons+0.619065%
45Lawrence County0507516,273+73 persons+0.450617%
46Van Buren County0514116,238+11 persons+0.067788%
47Cross County0503716,186-118 persons-0.723749%
48Arkansas County0500115,836-256 persons-1.590853%
49Sevier County0513315,758-89 persons-0.561620%
50Izard County0506514,405+106 persons+0.741311%
51Phillips County0510714,255-300 persons-2.061147%
52Clay County0502114,052-26 persons-0.184685%
53Lincoln County0507912,764-98 persons-0.761934%
54Stone County0513712,703-28 persons-0.219936%
55Fulton County0504912,492-62 persons-0.493866%
56Howard County0506112,306-190 persons-1.520487%
57Little River County0508111,763+64 persons+0.547055%
58Perry County0510510,309+38 persons+0.369974%
59Desha County050419,984-321 persons-3.114993%
60Scott County051279,965+99 persons+1.003446%
61Pike County051099,964-91 persons-0.905022%
62Bradley County050119,828-169 persons-1.690507%
63Chicot County050179,107-215 persons-2.306372%
64Montgomery County050978,579+24 persons+0.280538%
65Lee County050778,029-109 persons-1.339395%
66Nevada County050997,942-84 persons-1.046599%
67Prairie County051177,923-40 persons-0.502323%
68Searcy County051297,848+4 persons+0.050994%
69Cleveland County050257,224-151 persons-2.047458%
70Newton County051017,026-16 persons-0.227208%
71Monroe County050956,244-125 persons-1.962631%
72Dallas County050396,011-98 persons-1.604191%
73Lafayette County050735,888-168 persons-2.774108%
74Woodruff County051475,710-83 persons-1.432764%
75Calhoun County050134,632-45 persons-0.962155%

County population trend · 2020–2025

Resident population (persons), not ACS housing. April 1, 2020 estimates base is distinct from the July 1, 2020 estimate. The April–July 2020 change is partial-year; the July 2020–July 2021 interval is the first July-to-July comparison. No 2020 annual rate is shown. Missing observations are unavailable, never zero.

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Population observations for Pulaski County (GEOID 05119), persons
DatePopulation (persons)Interval
April 1, 2020 base399,110Estimates base; not July 1
July 1, 2020399,252April–July partial-year; no annual rate
July 1, 2021398,104July 2020–July 2021 comparison
July 1, 2022400,246July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2023401,297July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2024403,394July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2025404,611July-to-July estimate

County population and median home value · different vintages

Each point pairs a county’s PEP July 1, 2025 resident population (persons) with its ACS 2024 5-year median owner-occupied home value (B25077, U.S. dollars). These are different reference periods and different statistical programs. This descriptive comparison does not imply causality or matched vintages. Suppressed, missing or invalid ACS estimates are unavailable, not zero and not plotted. A valid zero remains zero.

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County comparison: PEP July 1, 2025 population (persons) and ACS 2024 5-year median owner-occupied home value (U.S. dollars); unavailable values identified
CountyGEOIDPEP July 1, 2025 population (persons)ACS 2024 5-year median home value (U.S. dollars)
Arkansas County0500115,836$138,100
Ashley County0500317,831$91,900
Baxter County0500542,982$174,600
Benton County05007332,554$323,500
Boone County0500938,628$188,900
Bradley County050119,828$94,800
Calhoun County050134,632$110,700
Carroll County0501529,263$210,400
Chicot County050179,107$89,100
Clark County0501920,938$155,000
Clay County0502114,052$94,600
Cleburne County0502325,672$179,800
Cleveland County050257,224$137,600
Columbia County0502721,894$152,100
Conway County0502921,393$154,100
Craighead County05031116,957$210,400
Crawford County0503362,657$182,800
Crittenden County0503546,210$160,200
Cross County0503716,186$117,500
Dallas County050396,011$97,300
Desha County050419,984$90,900
Drew County0504317,054$140,800
Faulkner County05045133,979$232,700
Franklin County0504717,725$130,800
Fulton County0504912,492$113,800
Garland County0505199,695$194,300
Grant County0505318,756$161,700
Greene County0505547,411$169,300
Hempstead County0505719,080$105,700
Hot Spring County0505933,451$151,100
Howard County0506112,306$153,900
Independence County0506338,785$142,600
Izard County0506514,405$129,100
Jackson County0506716,741$98,300
Jefferson County0506962,987$113,400
Johnson County0507126,225$135,300
Lafayette County050735,888$81,000
Lawrence County0507516,273$98,900
Lee County050778,029$75,300
Lincoln County0507912,764$108,000
Little River County0508111,763$113,500
Logan County0508321,633$139,900
Lonoke County0508576,664$193,600
Madison County0508718,410$178,100
Marion County0508917,593$163,300
Miller County0509142,357$153,900
Mississippi County0509337,828$122,500
Monroe County050956,244$88,700
Montgomery County050978,579$151,900
Nevada County050997,942$83,300
Newton County051017,026$169,300
Ouachita County0510321,731$102,100
Perry County0510510,309$130,200
Phillips County0510714,255$78,200
Pike County051099,964$121,600
Poinsett County0511122,483$103,000
Polk County0511319,486$138,400
Pope County0511564,976$170,100
Prairie County051177,923$96,400
Pulaski County05119404,611$214,700
Randolph County0512118,876$130,600
St. Francis County0512321,800$90,900
Saline County05125133,288$221,200
Scott County051279,965$115,000
Searcy County051297,848$110,000
Sebastian County05131130,641$176,200
Sevier County0513315,758$117,600
Sharp County0513518,122$105,100
Stone County0513712,703$171,600
Union County0513936,926$120,900
Van Buren County0514116,238$135,700
Washington County05143271,213$298,400
White County0514580,085$163,600
Woodruff County051475,710$106,500
Yell County0514919,956$143,600