Crittenden County area

Population and density of Crittenden County

The Census Bureau estimates that 46,210 people lived in Crittenden County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,085 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #15 of 75 in Arkansas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 48,161, the population has declined by 1,951 (−4.1%), compared with +3.4% for Arkansas as a whole.

With 611.8 square miles of land, that is 76 people per square mile (29 per km²), placing Crittenden County #1,205 nationally for density and #15 in Arkansas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Arkansas median is 28. Put another way, there are about 8.5 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Crittenden County

13 incorporated places lie at least partly in Crittenden County. Together they are home to 40,851 people (88.4%); the other 5,359 (11.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is West Memphis city, with 23,336 residents in the county. The county seat, Marion city, has 13,378 residents.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Crittenden County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Crittenden County is a central county of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 9 county equivalents have 1,341,412 residents on 4,972.4 square miles of land; Crittenden County accounts for 12.3% of the land and 3.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #52 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #46 by population. It belongs to the Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Crittenden County; 9 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

723017232572327723317233272339723467234872364723767238472386

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Crittenden County

Crittenden County shares a land border with 9 county equivalents, including 4 in Tennessee and Mississippi. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Mississippi County (902.1 mi²) and the smallest is Tunica County (454.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Crittenden County forms a block of 6,262 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.8%.

How big is Crittenden County compared with U.S. states?

Crittenden County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Arkansas’s county land could hold about 85 areas the size of Crittenden County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.7 miles (39.8 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Crittenden County?

Crittenden County has more land than 1,641 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Crittenden County at #1,596 nationally by total area, 15 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 3.8 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Crittenden County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.