Demographics

Fayetteville has many wonderful intangibles such as clean air and water, beautiful scenery, and its greatest asset, the people that live here. The quality of life is what brings people here to visit and what makes them want to stay. The facts point to a continued bright future for Fayetteville and the Northwest Arkansas community.

Highlights:

• 4th fastest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for job growth and 1st in income growth according to Forbes Best Places 2005, with an overall ranking of #7 in the nation
• Currently, the MSA is experiencing a growth rate of approximately 800 new residents per month
• Within a 25-mile radius of the MSA live 437,367 people and a 50-mile radius shows a population of 835,232 with growth rates of 39.7% and 30.7% respectively over the last five years
• The Fayetteville MSA in Northwest Arkansas had a population growth 3.5 times the growth rates of the U. S. and 13.2 times more than the State of Arkansas from 1990 to 2000; and the Washington County growth rate as increased 23.1% from 2000-2007.

U.S. Average = 330.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area data from the 2005 American Community Survey. The American Community Survey includes general demographics, population, housing, economic, and social characteristics.

** The link verifying this data is US Census FactFinder Survey. The Trade Area can be loosely defined as the wider tri-state region of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri of people who routinely travel through and conduct business in the Fayetteville area.

* See the Population tab for further clarification. The link to the data can be found at US Census Bureau - Special Census