Bella Vista, Arkansas

Bella Vista population, 2020 to 2024

Bella Vista added 3,057 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.1%. In the latest year it moved by +779. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Bella Vista is 2.9 times that size.

Bella Vista covers 45.30 square miles of land and 1.57 of water, for 735 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Bella Vista is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bella Vista is in

All of Bella Vista's residents live in Benton County, which had 321,566 residents in 2024. Bella Vista holds 10.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bella Vista

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bella Vista by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72714, 72715. 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 Bella Vista is

The Census internal point of Bella Vista is at 36.466600, -94.266300. Little Rock, the capital, is 162.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bentonville, AR (61,791 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Bella Vista

At 36.47° N, Bella Vista gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bella Vista

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Gravette, 6.3 miles away, with 3,826 people.