Searcy, Arkansas

Searcy population, 2020 to 2024

Searcy added 1,036 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +123. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Searcy is 2.1 times that size.

Searcy covers 18.32 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,310 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Searcy is denser than the typical town.

What county Searcy is in

All of Searcy's residents live in White County, which had 79,091 residents in 2024. Searcy holds 30.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Searcy

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Searcy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72143. 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 Searcy is

The Census internal point of Searcy is at 35.241100, -91.735200. Little Rock, the capital, is 46.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cabot, AR (27,575 people), 24.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 50.1 miles away.

Daylight in Searcy

At 35.24° N, Searcy gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Searcy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Kensett, 3.6 miles away, with 1,407 people.