[5] Star City is located within the Pine Bluff metropolitan area.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km2), all land.

[6] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,173 people, 686 households, and 450 families residing in the city.

Star City was the setting for the 1992 police thriller film One False Move, starring actors Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, and written by Thornton.

However, only limited filming was done there with the bulk of the movie shot in Cotton Plant, Arkansas.

US 425 is a major north-south highway in southeast Arkansas and connects the city to Pine Bluff to the north and Monticello to the south.

This route is a two-lane freeway segment of a future extension of Interstate 530 (I-530) south to Monticello.