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Receipts totaled $12.7M across all 26 reporting cities.","Among the Core cities, Springdale led at +22.6% and Bella Vista trailed at -1.8%.","The fastest register growth was outside the Core: Cave Springs at +27.2%.","5 cities show moves large enough to reflect a new or changed local tax rather than spending (Avoca, Centerton, Springtown, Lowell\u2026); they are marked in the table and left out of the rankings above.","The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 3.66% in the period, 5 basis points lower than a year earlier.","Employed residents in the NWA metro averaged 239,961 in the period, up 4.8% from a year earlier.","Momentum at period end (12-month sales-tax growth vs a year earlier): speeding up in Fayetteville; slowing in Springdale."]}