Hope, Arkansas

Hope population, 2020 to 2024

Hope lost 454 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.1%. In the latest year it moved by -106. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Hope is 75% of it.

Hope covers 10.69 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 792 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Hope is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hope is in

All of Hope's residents live in Hempstead County, which had 19,105 residents in 2024. Hope holds 44.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hope

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hope by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 71801. 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 Hope is

The Census internal point of Hope is at 33.668200, -93.588900. Little Rock, the capital, is 105.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Texarkana, AR (28,897 people), 28.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 83.8 miles away.

Daylight in Hope

At 33.67° N, Hope gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hope

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Prescott, 14.7 miles away, with 2,970 people.