El Dorado, Arkansas

El Dorado population, 2020 to 2024

El Dorado lost 1,043 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.9%. In the latest year it moved by -208. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so El Dorado is 1.5 times that size.

El Dorado covers 16.20 square miles of land, for 1,028 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so El Dorado is close to the typical town.

What county El Dorado is in

All of El Dorado's residents live in Union County, which had 37,008 residents in 2024. El Dorado holds 45.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in El Dorado

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps El Dorado by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 71730. 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 El Dorado is

The Census internal point of El Dorado is at 33.219000, -92.664100. Little Rock, the capital, is 107.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ruston, LA (22,330 people), 47.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 83.6 miles away.

Daylight in El Dorado

At 33.22° N, El Dorado gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near El Dorado

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Smackover, 10.7 miles away, with 1,573 people.