Jonesboro, Louisiana

Jonesboro population, 2020 to 2024

Jonesboro lost 83 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -26.

Jonesboro covers 4.85 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 831 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Jonesboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jonesboro is in

All of Jonesboro's residents live in Jackson Parish, which had 14,797 residents in 2024. Jonesboro holds 27.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jonesboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jonesboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 71251. 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 Jonesboro is

The Census internal point of Jonesboro is at 32.233500, -92.710600. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 152.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grambling, LA (5,278 people), 20.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 65.2 miles away.

Daylight in Jonesboro

At 32.23° N, Jonesboro gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jonesboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Grambling, 20.2 miles away, with 5,278 people.