Mena, Arkansas

Mena population, 2020 to 2024

Mena added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -21. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Mena is 49% of it.

Mena covers 6.94 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 806 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Mena is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mena is in

All of Mena's residents live in Polk County, which had 19,434 residents in 2024. Mena holds 28.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mena

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mena by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 71953. 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 Mena is

The Census internal point of Mena is at 34.581800, -94.236500. Little Rock, the capital, is 111.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is De Queen, AR (6,069 people), 37.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 103.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mena

At 34.58° N, Mena gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mena

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Waldron, 23.6 miles away, with 3,337 people.