Arkansas · Census place 0537780
Lake City, Arkansas
Lake City is a city in Craighead County, Arkansas with an estimated 2,727 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 109th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,727
- #109 of 185 in Arkansas
- Change since 2020
- +16.5%
- +386 people
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- + 0.03 sq mi water
- Density
- 866 / sq mi
- State median 1,001
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Lake City population, 2020 to 2024
Lake City added 386 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.5%. In the latest year it moved by +102.
Lake City covers 3.15 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 866 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Lake City is less dense than the typical town.
What county Lake City is in
All of Lake City's residents live in Craighead County, which had 115,852 residents in 2024. Lake City holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Lake City
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72437. 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 Lake City is
The Census internal point of Lake City is at 35.819400, -90.453900. Little Rock, the capital, is 127.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brookland, AR (4,607 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 56.2 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 35.819400, -90.453900
- DMS
- 35°49'9.84"N 90°27'14.04"W
- UTM
- 15N 730020.1E 3966909.7N
- Geohash
- 9yrev8trp
- Plus code
- 867FRG9W+QC
Daylight in Lake City
At 35.82° N, Lake City gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Lake City
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Bay, 7.5 miles away, with 1,817 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Lake City, AR?
2,727 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 386 (16.5%) from 2,341 in July 2020.
What county is Lake City in?
Craighead County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Lake City?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 72437.
How far is Lake City from Little Rock?
127.3 miles (204.8 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Lake City.
What is the nearest larger city to Lake City?
Brookland, AR, with 4,607 residents, 8.5 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.