Arkansas Counties
Complete list of all 75 counties in Arkansas with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.
Labeled outline map of Arkansas counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.
All 75 Arkansas counties
| County | County Seat | Population ▼ | Area | Median Income | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulaski | — | 391,102 | 760 mi² | $66,369 | 11 |
| Benton | — | 291,519 | 847 mi² | $94,721 | 17 |
| Washington | — | 263,352 | 942 mi² | $71,250 | 16 |
| Saline | — | 129,375 | 724 mi² | $77,944 | 9 |
| Sebastian | — | 128,433 | 532 mi² | $59,793 | 9 |
| Faulkner | — | 126,392 | 648 mi² | $67,577 | 9 |
| Craighead | — | 114,026 | 707 mi² | $62,574 | 11 |
| Garland | — | 107,496 | 678 mi² | $59,399 | 7 |
| Lonoke | — | 79,428 | 771 mi² | $71,977 | 10 |
| White | — | 77,903 | 1,035 mi² | $56,111 | 16 |
| Jefferson | — | 65,175 | 871 mi² | $50,392 | 11 |
| Pope | — | 64,961 | 813 mi² | $58,541 | 7 |
| Crawford | — | 57,796 | 593 mi² | $65,970 | 9 |
| Crittenden | — | 48,305 | 610 mi² | $55,936 | 10 |
| Greene | — | 45,137 | 578 mi² | $57,418 | 6 |
How many counties does Arkansas have?
Arkansas has 75 counties covering 52,037 square miles and roughly 3,049,715 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1836 as the 25th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.
The largest county by land area is Union County at 1,039 square miles, home to about 38,413 residents. The most populous is Pulaski County with approximately 391,102 residents — a density of about 515 people per square mile.
At the other end of the scale, Calhoun County has only about 3,800 residents.
Little Rock is both the state capital and the largest city in Arkansas.
Related resources
Download a printable outline of Arkansas’s county boundaries from our blank map of Arkansas page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.
Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Arkansas county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.
For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Arkansas address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.
Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Arkansas specifically: the 100-mile radius around Little Rock measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Arkansas ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Arkansas’s 75 counties in national context.
Frequently asked questions
Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.