The Fort Smith Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the

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, is a five-county area including three

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and two

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counties, and anchored by the city of

Fort Smith, Arkansas Fort Smith is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, third-most populous city in Arkansas, United States, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas, Sebastian County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the pop ...

. The total MSA population in

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was 273,170 people, estimated by the Bureau to have grown to 289,693 people by 2007. 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 * Sebastian County * Crawford County * Franklin County Oklahoma * Le Flore County * Sequoyah County

Communities

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

Places with more than 75,000 inhabitants

(Principal city)

Places with 10,000 to 25,000 inhabitants

* Van Buren, Arkansas

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

* Alma, Arkansas * Arkoma, Oklahoma * Barling, Arkansas * Cedarville, Arkansas * Charleston, Arkansas * Greenwood, Arkansas * Heavener, Oklahoma * Lavaca, Arkansas * Mansfield, Arkansas (partial) * Mulberry, Arkansas * Muldrow, Oklahoma * Ozark, Arkansas * Panama, Oklahoma * Pocola, Oklahoma * Poteau, Oklahoma * Roland, Oklahoma * Sallisaw, Oklahoma *

Spiro, Oklahoma Spiro is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Fort Smith metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,164 at the 2010 census, a 2.8 ...

* Talihina, Oklahoma * Vian, Oklahoma * Wister, Oklahoma

Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants

* Bonanza, Arkansas * Brent, Oklahoma (

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) *

Brushy, Oklahoma Brushy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, along U.S. Route 59 in Oklahoma, U.S. Route 59 in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains (Oklahoma), Brushy Mountains. It is part of ...

(census-designated place) * Carlisle, Oklahoma (census-designated place) * Central City, Arkansas * Dyer, Arkansas * Gore, Oklahoma *

Hackett, Arkansas Hackett is a city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Fort Smith metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 812 at the 2010 United Sta ...

* Hartford, Arkansas * Howe, Oklahoma * Huntington, Arkansas * Kibler, Arkansas * Mountainburg, Arkansas * Rock Island, Oklahoma * Shady Point, Oklahoma

Places with fewer than 500 inhabitants

Remy, Oklahoma Remy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 411 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United S ...

(census-designated place) * Rudy, Arkansas * Short, Oklahoma (census-designated place) * Stony Point, Oklahoma (census-designated place) * Sycamore, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma (census-designated place) * Wiederkehr Village, Arkansas

Unincorporated places

* Big Cedar, Oklahoma * Dora, Arkansas * Figure Five, Arkansas * Hodgen, Oklahoma * Monroe, Oklahoma * Muse, Oklahoma * Skullyville, Oklahoma * Whitesboro, Oklahoma

Largest cities in the MSA

Demographics

As of the

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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%

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, 3.46%

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, 5.80% Native American, 1.80% Asian, 0.04%

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, 2.26% from other races, and 3.87% from two or more races.

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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

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for the MSA was $15,039.

References

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