Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Hot Springs added 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +65. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Hot Springs is 3.4 times that size.

Hot Springs covers 37.56 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,011 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Hot Springs is close to the typical town.

What county Hot Springs is in

All of Hot Springs's residents live in Garland County, which had 99,902 residents in 2024. Hot Springs holds 38.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hot Springs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hot Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 71901, 71913. 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 Hot Springs is

The Census internal point of Hot Springs is at 34.489400, -93.050300. Little Rock, the capital, is 46.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Benton, AR (38,088 people), 27.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 42.6 miles away.

Daylight in Hot Springs

At 34.49° N, Hot Springs gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hot Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Malvern, 15.3 miles away, with 11,082 people.