#1Tontitown
Washington County4,285 in 2020·8,046 in 2025·+3,761 people
Tontitown, #1 on this list · Illinois River Bridge at Phillips Ford · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Arkansas rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Arkansas
Tontitown has grown fastest of Arkansas’ 111 towns of 2,500+: up 87.8% from 4,285 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 8,046 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +2.4%; 38 of the 111 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+87.8%
#2Pea Ridge
Benton County6,613 in 2020·11,233 in 2025·+4,620 people
Centerton
Benton County17,871 in 2020·27,176 in 2025·+9,305 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Arkansas?
Tontitown (Washington County): it grew 87.8%, from 4,285 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 8,046 in July 2025. Pea Ridge (+69.9%) and Centerton (+52.1%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (111 in Arkansas). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Arkansas page.
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