Arkansas · Census place 0576820

Wooster, Arkansas

Wooster is a town in Faulkner County, Arkansas with an estimated 1,101 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 178th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,101
#178 of 185 in Arkansas
Change since 2020
+5.9%
+61 people
Land area
2.9 sq mi
Density
386 / sq mi
State median 1,001
Orange pin: Wooster. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Little Rock.

Wooster population, 2020 to 2024

Wooster added 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.9%. In the latest year it moved by +44.

1,04020201,03920211,04220221,05720231,1012024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,036. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Wooster covers 2.85 square miles of land, for 386 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Wooster is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wooster is in

All of Wooster's residents live in Faulkner County, which had 131,611 residents in 2024. Wooster holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wooster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wooster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 72058. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Wooster is

The Census internal point of Wooster is at 35.199900, -92.450200. Little Rock, the capital, is 32.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenbrier, AR (6,330 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 33.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.199900, -92.450200
DMS
35°11'59.64"N 92°27'0.72"W
UTM
15N 550048.1E 3895350.0N
Geohash
9yq20pzy6
Plus code
86795GXX+XW

Daylight in Wooster

At 35.20° N, Wooster 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 Wooster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenbrier, 4.3 miles away, with 6,330 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Wooster, AR?

1,101 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 61 (5.9%) from 1,040 in July 2020.

What county is Wooster in?

Faulkner County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Wooster?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 72058.

How far is Wooster from Little Rock?

32.6 miles (52.5 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Wooster.

What is the nearest larger city to Wooster?

Greenbrier, AR, with 6,330 residents, 4.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.