Faulkner County area

Population and density of Faulkner County

The Census Bureau estimates that 133,979 people lived in Faulkner County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #498 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #4 of 75 in Arkansas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 123,500, the population has grown by 10,479 (+8.5%), compared with +3.4% for Arkansas as a whole.

With 647.2 square miles of land, that is 207 people per square mile (80 per km²), placing Faulkner County #631 nationally for density and #5 in Arkansas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Arkansas median is 28. Put another way, there are about 3.1 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 Faulkner County

12 incorporated places lie at least partly in Faulkner County. Together they are home to 89,764 people (67%); the other 44,215 (33%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Conway city, with 72,328 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Greenbrier city grew fastest since then (+16%).

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

Metropolitan area

Faulkner County is an outlying county of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 6 county equivalents have 777,607 residents on 4,084.1 square miles of land; Faulkner County accounts for 15.8% of the land and 17.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #72 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #81 by population. It belongs to the Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Faulkner County; 11 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

720237203272034720357203972047720587206172076721067211172120721317217372181

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 Faulkner County

Faulkner County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is White County (1,034 mi²) and the smallest is Perry County (551.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Faulkner County forms a block of 5,578.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.6%.

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

Faulkner County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. Arkansas’s county land could hold about 80 areas the size of Faulkner County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.4 miles (40.9 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 Faulkner County?

Faulkner County has more land than 1,761 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 Faulkner County at #1,528 nationally by total area, 67 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 2.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.4 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 Faulkner 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.