Arkansas: county data, all 75 of them.
Every Arkansas county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Arkansas statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.
- Counties
- 75
- Population
- 3,049,391
- Land area
- 52,037 sq mi
- Establishments
- 69,910
- Combined county GDP
- $188.34 bn
- SBA approvals recorded
- 2,367
Read this first
This is a county directory, not a state guide.
The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.
What is missing is the Arkansas legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Arkansas, and no such pack exists yet.
Why there is no state guide here
You cannot write Arkansas zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.
Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.
Counties
All 75 Arkansas county-equivalents.
| Geography | Population | Median income | Establishments | County GDP | SBA approvals | Land area, sq mi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas County | 16,515 | $53,164 | 473 | $1.35 bn | 11 | 989 |
| Ashley County | 18,429 | $44,266 | 329 | $1.20 bn | 6 | 925 |
| Baxter County | 42,407 | $48,452 | 1,125 | $2.33 bn | 49 | 554 |
| Benton County | 303,632 | $93,506 | 7,788 | $26.13 bn | 350 | 847 |
| Boone County | 38,138 | $55,143 | 916 | $1.93 bn | 25 | 590 |
| Bradley County | 10,208 | $41,476 | 234 | $472.0 m | 7 | 649 |
| Calhoun County | 4,704 | $66,809 | 63 | $458.1 m | None recorded | 629 |
| Carroll County | 28,626 | $54,230 | 722 | $1.31 bn | 49 | 630 |
| Chicot County | 9,765 | $39,045 | 197 | $372.1 m | 5 | 644 |
| Clark County | 21,125 | $52,034 | 540 | $1.07 bn | 23 | 866 |
| Clay County | 14,280 | $51,481 | 278 | $476.3 m | 7 | 639 |
| Cleburne County | 25,226 | $55,798 | 601 | $844.1 m | 20 | 554 |
| Cleveland County | 7,453 | $54,794 | 77 | $235.3 m | 15 | 598 |
| Columbia County | 22,349 | $55,334 | 535 | $1.31 bn | 11 | 766 |
| Conway County | 21,054 | $54,187 | 417 | $1.02 bn | 28 | 552 |
| Craighead County | 113,249 | $59,548 | 2,788 | $7.26 bn | 56 | 707 |
| Crawford County | 61,139 | $64,132 | 1,130 | $2.33 bn | 30 | 593 |
| Crittenden County | 47,266 | $55,358 | 844 | $2.34 bn | 21 | 610 |
| Cross County | 16,543 | $50,863 | 369 | $587.8 m | 8 | 616 |
| Dallas County | 6,242 | $42,500 | 169 | $340.3 m | None recorded | 667 |
| Desha County | 10,786 | $37,662 | 270 | $724.0 m | 10 | 768 |
| Drew County | 17,046 | $42,824 | 423 | $819.1 m | 21 | 828 |
| Faulkner County | 127,717 | $67,289 | 2,990 | $5.74 bn | 126 | 648 |
| Franklin County | 17,326 | $55,886 | 309 | $688.9 m | 9 | 609 |
| Fulton County | 12,302 | $42,241 | 165 | $237.2 m | 4 | 618 |
| Garland County | 100,035 | $57,181 | 2,953 | $4.74 bn | 126 | 678 |
| Grant County | 18,242 | $71,549 | 316 | $668.0 m | 6 | 632 |
| Greene County | 46,432 | $57,839 | 842 | $2.02 bn | 19 | 578 |
| Hempstead County | 19,508 | $46,787 | 378 | $1.32 bn | 7 | 728 |
| Hot Spring County | 33,180 | $55,405 | 513 | $1.58 bn | 27 | 615 |
| Howard County | 12,583 | $45,603 | 270 | $908.5 m | 1 | 589 |
| Independence County | 38,175 | $56,609 | 810 | $2.64 bn | 14 | 764 |
| Izard County | 14,009 | $49,405 | 213 | $390.1 m | 11 | 581 |
| Jackson County | 16,712 | $44,218 | 310 | $988.0 m | 5 | 634 |
| Jefferson County | 64,802 | $51,096 | 1,199 | $3.46 bn | 31 | 871 |
| Johnson County | 26,003 | $45,995 | 413 | $934.9 m | 13 | 660 |
| Lafayette County | 6,136 | $41,278 | 99 | $221.3 m | 6 | 528 |
| Lawrence County | 16,238 | $44,882 | 284 | $559.4 m | 10 | 588 |
| Lee County | 8,359 | $34,375 | 102 | $244.8 m | 1 | 603 |
| Lincoln County | 12,950 | $51,778 | 156 | $380.0 m | 10 | 562 |
| Little River County | 11,821 | $53,344 | 168 | $715.0 m | 3 | 532 |
| Logan County | 21,277 | $58,555 | 360 | $727.4 m | 5 | 708 |
| Lonoke County | 75,272 | $72,828 | 1,175 | $2.12 bn | 30 | 771 |
| Madison County | 17,329 | $56,798 | 242 | $694.6 m | 20 | 834 |
| Marion County | 17,228 | $48,619 | 246 | $773.6 m | 13 | 597 |
| Miller County | 42,360 | $48,836 | 730 | $1.83 bn | 21 | 626 |
| Mississippi County | 39,126 | $52,548 | 737 | $4.15 bn | 10 | 901 |
| Monroe County | 6,589 | $43,214 | 170 | $264.5 m | 4 | 607 |
| Montgomery County | 8,553 | $48,906 | 134 | $209.0 m | 3 | 780 |
| Nevada County | 8,159 | $53,886 | 114 | $318.2 m | None recorded | 618 |
| Newton County | 7,112 | $48,986 | 85 | $138.7 m | 4 | 821 |
| Ouachita County | 22,085 | $49,268 | 465 | $862.9 m | 9 | 733 |
| Perry County | 10,101 | $55,764 | 115 | $265.7 m | 4 | 551 |
| Phillips County | 15,450 | $40,134 | 329 | $677.6 m | 3 | 696 |
| Pike County | 10,115 | $49,269 | 214 | $401.3 m | 10 | 601 |
| Poinsett County | 22,543 | $46,707 | 333 | $886.1 m | 6 | 758 |
| Polk County | 19,361 | $49,191 | 429 | $860.2 m | 23 | 858 |
| Pope County | 64,131 | $57,344 | 1,601 | $4.15 bn | 36 | 813 |
| Prairie County | 8,064 | $51,646 | 136 | $267.4 m | 3 | 648 |
| Pulaski County | 399,818 | $62,873 | 12,185 | $41.43 bn | 372 | 760 |
| Randolph County | 18,838 | $50,911 | 314 | $728.7 m | 40 | 652 |
| Saline County | 127,479 | $79,046 | 2,389 | $4.03 bn | 100 | 724 |
| Scott County | 9,816 | $43,270 | 142 | $505.2 m | 3 | 892 |
| Searcy County | 7,859 | $44,426 | 117 | $258.6 m | 2 | 666 |
| Sebastian County | 128,900 | $57,790 | 3,398 | $9.26 bn | 98 | 532 |
| Sevier County | 15,712 | $53,527 | 263 | $758.0 m | 3 | 565 |
| Sharp County | 17,773 | $44,637 | 342 | $579.8 m | 18 | 604 |
| St. Francis County | 22,400 | $42,574 | 404 | $943.1 m | 6 | 635 |
| Stone County | 12,568 | $40,943 | 244 | $365.9 m | 17 | 606 |
| Union County | 37,900 | $55,259 | 1,036 | $3.38 bn | 28 | 1,039 |
| Van Buren County | 15,998 | $50,354 | 319 | $483.8 m | 11 | 708 |
| Washington County | 256,765 | $70,639 | 6,281 | $18.16 bn | 233 | 942 |
| White County | 77,838 | $55,249 | 1,637 | $3.31 bn | 43 | 1,035 |
| Woodruff County | 6,026 | $48,158 | 123 | $326.7 m | None recorded | 587 |
| Yell County | 20,134 | $55,934 | 323 | $895.4 m | 8 | 930 |
The register
Every source behind these 75 pages.
| Source | Period covered | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates | 2020-2024 5-year | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024 | Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2 | CAGDP2, through 2024 | US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain |
| US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet | 2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001 | US EPA, public domain |
| FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status Book | Community Status Book, as retrieved | FEMA OpenFEMA, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release | FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release | FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices | TIGER county boundaries | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns | 2023 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages | 2024 annual averages | US BLS, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey | 2024 annual | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows | 2021 to 2022 filing years | IRS SOI, public domain |