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Receipts totaled $25.6M across all 31 reporting cities.","Among the Core cities, Bella Vista led at +8.7% and Bentonville trailed at -32.1%.","The fastest register growth was outside the Core: Sulphur Springs at +38.5%.","3 cities show moves large enough to reflect a new or changed local tax rather than spending (Springtown, Elm Springs, Avoca); they are marked in the table and left out of the rankings above.","Builders pulled permits for 634 residential units region-wide, down 36.6% year over year.","The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 6.33% in the period, 39 basis points lower than a year earlier.","Employed residents in the NWA metro averaged 316,047 in the period, up 3.0% from a year earlier.","Momentum at period end (12-month sales-tax growth vs a year earlier): speeding up in Siloam Springs; slowing in Springdale.","The metro counted 309,200 jobs in April 2026, up 7,500 from April 2025; leisure & hospitality added the most (+2,600), transportation & utilities shed the most (-300) (BLS, preliminary for recent months)."]}