Little River County area

Population and density of Little River County

The Census Bureau estimates that 11,763 people lived in Little River County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,371 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #57 of 75 in Arkansas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,029, the population has declined by 266 (−2.2%), compared with +3.4% for Arkansas as a whole.

With 531.3 square miles of land, that is 22 people per square mile (8.5 per km²), placing Little River County #2,242 nationally for density and #47 in Arkansas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Arkansas median is 28. Put another way, there are about 29 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 Little River County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Little River County. Together they are home to 5,617 people (47.8%); the other 6,146 (52.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Ashdown city, with 4,135 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Little River County is an outlying county of the Texarkana, TX-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 146,816 residents on 2,040.2 square miles of land; Little River County accounts for 26% of the land and 8% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #154 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #300 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Little River County; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

71820718227183671846718537186571866

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 Little River County

Little River County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Texas and Oklahoma. Each of them has more land than Little River County. The largest neighbor is McCurtain County (1,850.8 mi²) and the smallest is Sevier County (563.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Little River County forms a block of 5,769.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.2%.

How big is Little River County compared with U.S. states?

Little River County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.9 times as much. Arkansas’s county land could hold about 98 areas the size of Little River County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23 miles (37.1 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 Little River County?

Little River County has more land than 1,250 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 Little River County at #1,962 nationally by total area, 10 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 5.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4.5 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 Little River 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.