Prairie Grove, Arkansas

Prairie Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Prairie Grove added 1,456 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +20.4%. In the latest year it moved by +384. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Prairie Grove is 76% of it.

Prairie Grove covers 9.33 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 921 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Prairie Grove is close to the typical town.

What county Prairie Grove is in

All of Prairie Grove's residents live in Washington County, which had 266,184 residents in 2024. Prairie Grove holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prairie Grove

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Prairie Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72730, 72753. 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 Prairie Grove is

The Census internal point of Prairie Grove is at 35.986100, -94.303400. Little Rock, the capital, is 142.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Farmington, AR (10,473 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 9.6 miles away.

Daylight in Prairie Grove

At 35.99° N, Prairie Grove gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 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 Prairie Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Farmington, 4.5 miles away, with 10,473 people.