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Arkansas Counties

Complete list of all 75 counties in Arkansas with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties
75
Population
3,049,715
Area
52,037 sq mi
Capital
Little Rock
Time Zone
Central (CT)
Labeled map of Arkansas counties

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
Pulaski391,102760 mi²$66,36911
Benton291,519847 mi²$94,72117
Washington263,352942 mi²$71,25016
Saline129,375724 mi²$77,9449
Sebastian128,433532 mi²$59,7939
Faulkner126,392648 mi²$67,5779
Craighead114,026707 mi²$62,57411
Garland107,496678 mi²$59,3997
Lonoke79,428771 mi²$71,97710
White77,9031,035 mi²$56,11116
Jefferson65,175871 mi²$50,39211
Pope64,961813 mi²$58,5417
Crawford57,796593 mi²$65,9709
Crittenden48,305610 mi²$55,93610
Greene45,137578 mi²$57,4186

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

Arkansas has 75 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1836 as the 25th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
Union County is the largest by land area at 1,039 square miles, with about 38,413 residents.
Pulaski County is the most populous, with approximately 391,102 residents over 760 square miles.
Calhoun County has the smallest population at about 3,800 residents.
Little Rock is both the state capital and the largest city in Arkansas.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

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.

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