Highland, Arkansas

Highland population, 2020 to 2024

Highland added 59 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.0%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Highland covers 8.74 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 120 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Highland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Highland is in

All of Highland's residents live in Sharp County, which had 18,130 residents in 2024. Highland holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Highland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72542. 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 Highland is

The Census internal point of Highland is at 36.269400, -91.519800. Little Rock, the capital, is 113.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cherokee Village, AR (4,979 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 116.6 miles away.

Daylight in Highland

At 36.27° N, Highland 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 Highland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Cherokee Village, 3.1 miles away, with 4,979 people.