Batesville, Arkansas

Batesville population, 2020 to 2024

Batesville added 340 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -19. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Batesville is 1.0 times that size.

Batesville covers 11.60 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 995 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Batesville is close to the typical town.

What county Batesville is in

All of Batesville's residents live in Independence County, which had 38,345 residents in 2024. Batesville holds 30.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Batesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Batesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72501. 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 Batesville is

The Census internal point of Batesville is at 35.768600, -91.622700. Little Rock, the capital, is 80.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Searcy, AR (23,997 people), 37.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 83.2 miles away.

Daylight in Batesville

At 35.77° N, Batesville gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Batesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Southside, 3.4 miles away, with 4,248 people.