Fort Smith metropolitan area

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Fort Smith metropolitan area
Fort Smith, AR-OK
Metropolitan Statistical Area
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Map of Fort Smith, AR-OK MSA
Country Flag of United States.svg United States
State Flag of Arkansas.svg Arkansas
Flag of Oklahoma.svg Oklahoma
Principal cities Fort Smith
Van Buren
Area
  MSA10,000 km2 (4,000 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
   MSA
250,368
GDP
[1]
  MSA$12.024 billion (2022)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)

The Fort Smith Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is a five-county area including three Arkansas counties and two Oklahoma counties, and anchored by the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The total MSA population in 2000 was 273,170 people, estimated by the Bureau to have grown to 289,693 people by 2007. [2]

Contents

Other major cities located within the area include the Arkansas cities of Van Buren and Ozark and the Oklahoma cities of Poteau and Sallisaw. It is directly positioned under Crawford County in the western part of Arkansas.

Counties

Constituent counties of the MSA include:

Arkansas

Oklahoma

Communities

Communities are categorized based on their populations in the 2000 U.S. Census.

Places with more than 75,000 inhabitants

Places with 10,000 to 25,000 inhabitants

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants

Places with fewer than 500 inhabitants

Unincorporated places

Largest cities in the MSA

CityCountyStatePopulation
(2007 est.) [3] [4]
Fort SmithSebastianArkansas84,375
Van BurenCrawfordArkansas22,001
SallisawSequoyahOklahoma8,740
GreenwoodSebastianArkansas8,482
PoteauLe FloreOklahoma8,246
AlmaCrawfordArkansas4,948
BarlingSebastianArkansas4,439
PocolaLe FloreOklahoma4,435
OzarkFranklinArkansas3,557
HeavenerLe FloreOklahoma3,265
RolandSequoyahOklahoma3,258
MuldrowSequoyahOklahoma3,168
CharlestonFranklinArkansas3,007
SpiroLe FloreOklahoma2,316
ArkomaLe FloreOklahoma2,181

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
1910 150,991
1920 171,39313.5%
1930 155,138−9.5%
1940 171,41610.5%
1950 154,336−10.0%
1960 145,323−5.8%
1970 171,72218.2%
1980 218,21627.1%
1990 234,0787.3%
2000 273,17016.7%
2010 248,208−9.1%
2019 (est.)250,3680.9%
U.S. Decennial Census [5]
2019 Estimate [6]

As of the census [7] of 2000, there were 273,170 people, 104,506 households, and 75,005 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 82.78% White, 3.46% African American, 5.80% Native American, 1.80% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.26% from other races, and 3.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.54% of the population.

The median income for a household in the MSA was $30,500, and the median income for a family was $35,902. Males had a median income of $28,074 versus $20,182 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $15,039.

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References

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