Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Smith added 1,348 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +648. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Fort Smith is 8.0 times that size.

Fort Smith covers 64.19 square miles of land and 4.24 of water, for 1,410 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Fort Smith is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Smith is in

All of Fort Smith's residents live in Sebastian County, which had 130,035 residents in 2024. Fort Smith holds 69.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Smith

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Smith by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72901, 72903, 72904, 72908, 72916, 72923. 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 Fort Smith is

The Census internal point of Fort Smith is at 35.349300, -94.370900. Little Rock, the capital, is 124.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fayetteville, AR (103,134 people), 51.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Smith

At 35.35° N, Fort Smith gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Smith

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Barling, 5.5 miles away, with 5,284 people.