Arkansas · Census place 0502860

Austin, Arkansas

Austin is a city in Lonoke County, Arkansas with an estimated 4,027 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 80th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,027
#80 of 185 in Arkansas
Change since 2020
+13.3%
+474 people
Land area
3.1 sq mi
Density
1,299 / sq mi
State median 1,001
Orange pin: Austin. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Little Rock.

Austin population, 2020 to 2024

Austin added 474 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.3%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

3,55320204,00920214,01120224,01820234,0272024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,458. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Austin covers 3.10 square miles of land, for 1,299 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Austin is denser than the typical town.

What county Austin is in

All of Austin's residents live in Lonoke County, which had 76,389 residents in 2024. Austin holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Austin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Austin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72007. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Austin is

The Census internal point of Austin is at 35.005900, -91.989600. Little Rock, the capital, is 24.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ward, AR (7,022 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 28.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.005900, -91.989600
DMS
35°00'21.24"N 91°59'22.56"W
UTM
15N 592195.7E 3874163.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
867C2246+95

Daylight in Austin

At 35.01° N, Austin gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Austin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Ward, 1.9 miles away, with 7,022 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Austin, AR?

4,027 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 474 (13.3%) from 3,553 in July 2020.

What county is Austin in?

Lonoke County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Austin?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 72007.

How far is Austin from Little Rock?

24.7 miles (39.7 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Austin.

What is the nearest larger city to Austin?

Ward, AR, with 7,022 residents, 1.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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