Mountain Home, Arkansas

Mountain Home population, 2020 to 2024

Mountain Home added 507 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +111. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Mountain Home is 1.2 times that size.

Mountain Home covers 12.01 square miles of land, for 1,111 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Mountain Home is denser than the typical town.

What county Mountain Home is in

All of Mountain Home's residents live in Baxter County, which had 43,007 residents in 2024. Mountain Home holds 31.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mountain Home

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mountain Home by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72653. 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 Mountain Home is

The Census internal point of Mountain Home is at 36.335100, -92.384100. Little Rock, the capital, is 109.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harrison, AR (13,723 people), 41.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MO, 77.8 miles away.

Daylight in Mountain Home

At 36.34° N, Mountain Home gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mountain Home

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Gassville, 6.7 miles away, with 2,196 people.