[8] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 7,828 people, 3,327 households, and 2,333 families residing in the county.

This Republicanism resulted from their historical paucity of slaves, in turn created by infertile soils unsuitable for intensive cotton farming, and produced support for the Union during the Civil War.

[citation needed] These were the only two counties in Arkansas to be won by Alf Landon in 1936,[18] Wendell Willkie in 1940, Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, and even Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

In Presidential elections post-1932, Harry S. Truman and Jimmy Carter are the only Democrats to carry the county.

[19] In the 1992 election George H. W. Bush won his second-highest margin in the state, despite former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton being the Democratic nominee.

In fact, Republican nominee Bob Dole also carried the county 4 years later despite Clinton's success almost everywhere else in the state.

[22] The state senator, Missy Thomas Irvin, is also a Republican, serving her fourth term from the 24th district.

It voted for Frank White in his successful run against freshman Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton in 1980.

In 2006, it voted 52 percent for Republican ex-Congressman Asa Hutchinson, who lost to Democrat Mike Beebe.

Each township includes unincorporated areas; some may have incorporated cities or towns within part of their boundaries.

However, the United States census does list Arkansas population based on townships (sometimes referred to as "county subdivisions" or "minor civil divisions").

Each town or city is within one or more townships in an Arkansas county based on census maps and publications.