Paragould, Arkansas

Paragould population, 2020 to 2024

Paragould added 1,017 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +182. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Paragould is 2.7 times that size.

Paragould covers 31.77 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 966 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Paragould is close to the typical town.

What county Paragould is in

All of Paragould's residents live in Greene County, which had 46,928 residents in 2024. Paragould holds 65.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paragould

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Paragould by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72450. 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 Paragould is

The Census internal point of Paragould is at 36.052300, -90.510500. Little Rock, the capital, is 134.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jonesboro, AR (82,384 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 72.0 miles away.

Daylight in Paragould

At 36.05° N, Paragould gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paragould

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Grove Heights, 5.1 miles away, with 1,163 people.