Barling, Arkansas

Barling population, 2020 to 2024

Barling added 489 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.2%. In the latest year it moved by +59. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Barling is 47% of it.

Barling covers 10.27 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 515 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Barling is less dense than the typical town.

What county Barling is in

All of Barling's residents live in Sebastian County, which had 130,035 residents in 2024. Barling holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Barling

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Barling by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72923, 72941. 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 Barling is

The Census internal point of Barling is at 35.331300, -94.275200. Little Rock, the capital, is 119.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Smith, AR (90,507 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 51.5 miles away.

Daylight in Barling

At 35.33° N, Barling gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Barling

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lavaca, 5.2 miles away, with 2,528 people.