Blytheville, Arkansas

Blytheville population, 2020 to 2024

Blytheville lost 992 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.4%. In the latest year it moved by -242. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Blytheville is 1.1 times that size.

Blytheville covers 20.74 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 596 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Blytheville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Blytheville is in

All of Blytheville's residents live in Mississippi County, which had 38,095 residents in 2024. Blytheville holds 32.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blytheville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blytheville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72315. 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 Blytheville is

The Census internal point of Blytheville is at 35.934100, -89.905100. Little Rock, the capital, is 157.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dyersburg, TN (15,915 people), 30.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 57.1 miles away.

Daylight in Blytheville

At 35.93° N, Blytheville gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blytheville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Gosnell, 4.1 miles away, with 2,689 people.