What the numbers mean for dating in Arkansas
Arkansas has about 3.07 million residents and an estimated 506,000 women aged 18 to 44, a bit under 1% of the national pool. Its population splits between two poles: the Little Rock metro of roughly 750,000 in the center, and the fast-growing Northwest Arkansas corridor around Fayetteville, Bentonville, and Rogers, which has been pulled upward by Walmart, Tyson, and J.B. Hunt corporate hiring. Much of the rest of the state remains deeply rural, with thin local dating pools.
The state's median age of 38.6 sits slightly below the national figure, but its education profile lags: only about 26% of women 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, one of the lowest shares in the country — though Benton and Washington counties in the northwest run well above that. Marriage happens early here; only around 30% of adult women have never married, and Arkansas consistently posts some of the youngest median ages at first marriage in the United States.
A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 5,060 women in Arkansas. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.
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Methodology note
Estimates combine 2023 Census Bureau state population figures with American Community Survey age, sex, education, and marital status distributions. Figures are rounded estimates for statistical education, not precise counts. See our methodology and data sources.