Ward, Arkansas

Ward population, 2020 to 2024

Ward added 934 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.3%. In the latest year it moved by +188. Among 68 Arkansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +2.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arkansas has 11,311 people, so Ward is 62% of it.

Ward covers 4.53 square miles of land, for 1,550 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Ward is denser than the typical town.

What county Ward is in

All of Ward's residents live in Lonoke County, which had 76,389 residents in 2024. Ward holds 9.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ward

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ward by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72007, 72176. 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 Ward is

The Census internal point of Ward is at 35.013800, -91.957700. Little Rock, the capital, is 26.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cabot, AR (27,575 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 30.2 miles away.

Daylight in Ward

At 35.01° N, Ward gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ward

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Austin, 1.9 miles away, with 4,027 people.