Jacksonville, Arkansas

Jacksonville population, 2020 to 2024

Jacksonville lost 375 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +57. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 50th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Jacksonville is 2.6 times that size.

Jacksonville covers 28.69 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,015 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Jacksonville is close to the typical town.

What county Jacksonville is in

All of Jacksonville's residents live in Pulaski County, which had 401,209 residents in 2024. Jacksonville holds 7.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jacksonville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Jacksonville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72076, 72099. 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 Jacksonville is

The Census internal point of Jacksonville is at 34.880500, -92.130600. Little Rock, the capital, is 12.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sherwood, AR (33,281 people), 4.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 16.8 miles away.

Daylight in Jacksonville

At 34.88° N, Jacksonville gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jacksonville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Sherwood, 4.6 miles away, with 33,281 people.