Arkansas · Census place 0512340

Cave Springs, Arkansas

Cave Springs is a city in Benton County, Arkansas with an estimated 6,304 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 59th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
6,304
#59 of 185 in Arkansas
Change since 2020
+12.4%
+693 people
Land area
7.7 sq mi
+ 0.05 sq mi water
Density
814 / sq mi
State median 1,001
Orange pin: Cave Springs. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Little Rock.

Cave Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Cave Springs added 693 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.4%. In the latest year it moved by +196. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Cave Springs is 56% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,492. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cave Springs covers 7.74 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 814 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Cave Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cave Springs is in

All of Cave Springs's residents live in Benton County, which had 321,566 residents in 2024. Cave Springs holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cave Springs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cave Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72713, 72718. 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 Cave Springs is

The Census internal point of Cave Springs is at 36.268400, -94.219500. Little Rock, the capital, is 151.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lowell, AR (11,568 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 13.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.268400, -94.219500
DMS
36°16'6.24"N 94°13'10.20"W
UTM
15N 390460.5E 4014408.3N
Geohash
9ykyrfrqw
Plus code
86877Q9J+96

Daylight in Cave Springs

At 36.27° N, Cave Springs gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cave Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lowell, 3.8 miles away, with 11,568 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cave Springs, AR?

6,304 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 693 (12.4%) from 5,611 in July 2020.

What county is Cave Springs in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cave Springs?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 72713, 72718.

How far is Cave Springs from Little Rock?

151.1 miles (243.2 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Cave Springs.

What is the nearest larger city to Cave Springs?

Lowell, AR, with 11,568 residents, 3.8 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)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.