Lonoke County area

Population and density of Lonoke County

The Census Bureau estimates that 76,664 people lived in Lonoke County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #753 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #10 of 75 in Arkansas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 74,019, the population has grown by 2,645 (+3.6%), compared with +3.4% for Arkansas as a whole.

With 771.7 square miles of land, that is 99 people per square mile (38 per km²), placing Lonoke County #1,003 nationally for density and #10 in Arkansas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Arkansas median is 28. Put another way, there are about 6.4 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 Lonoke County

10 incorporated places lie at least partly in Lonoke County. Together they are home to 48,278 people (63%); the other 28,386 (37%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Cabot city, with 27,711 residents in the county. The county seat, Lonoke city, has 4,299 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Ward city grew fastest since then (+18.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Lonoke County is a central 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; Lonoke County accounts for 18.9% of the land and 9.9% 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

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

7200772023720247204672072720767208372086721427216072176

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 Lonoke County

Lonoke County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is White County (1,034 mi²) and the smallest is Faulkner County (647.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Lonoke County forms a block of 5,723.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.5%.

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

Lonoke County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Arkansas’s county land could hold about 67 areas the size of Lonoke County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 27.8 miles (44.7 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 Lonoke County?

Lonoke County has more land than 2,096 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 Lonoke County at #1,173 nationally by total area, 47 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 3.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.8 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 Lonoke 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.