Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
Arkansas

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Retail_Trade_____ Number of establish- ments Retail sales Number of employees Payroll ($1,000) Popu- lation Retail sales per capita ($)
($1,000) rank
 
United States 1,120,249 2,460,963,028   14,115,559 238,792,423 267,636,061 9,195
 
Arkansas 12,600 21,643,695   132,335 1,904,412 2,523,186 8,578
 
Pulaski County 1,847 4,584,374 1 26,898 415,141 350,142 13,093
Washington County 762 1,444,900 2 9,555 141,581 137,322 10,522
Sebastian County 659 1,360,634 3 8,721 128,076 106,171 12,815
Benton County 548 1,015,568 4 6,217 93,239 130,449 7,785
Garland County 498 875,774 5 5,023 74,772 83,046 10,546
Craighead County 480 854,297 6 5,589 80,770 76,420 11,179
Saline County 250 793,362 7 2,860 51,923 76,070 10,429
Jefferson County 393 726,630 8 4,785 71,757 82,185 8,841
Faulkner County 309 571,198 9 3,423 51,496 76,584 7,458
White County 312 508,950 10 2,997 42,457 63,263 8,045
Pope County 302 502,413 11 3,168 45,446 51,371 9,780
Crittenden County 206 496,869 12 2,722 33,133 49,625 10,012
Union County 263 408,616 13 2,603 36,484 45,375 9,005
Boone County 194 368,883 14 2,205 30,395 31,792 11,603
Mississippi County 261 361,770 15 2,117 29,124 50,496 7,164
Baxter County 227 298,166 16 1,713 27,068 36,260 8,223
Independence County 195 284,163 17 1,741 23,197 32,838 8,653
Lonoke County 178 269,105 18 1,622 23,268 49,318 5,457
Crawford County 171 268,542 19 1,599 22,805 49,585 5,416
Greene County 183 263,214 20 1,649 22,009 35,546 7,405
St. Francis County 144 259,282 21 1,485 21,278 28,378 9,137
Miller County 167 254,095 22 1,512 20,971 39,685 6,403
Arkansas County 143 201,087 23 1,190 17,674 20,839 9,650
Ouachita County 148 198,166 24 1,380 19,333 28,067 7,060
Phillips County 151 187,552 25 1,310 16,927 27,691 6,773
Carroll County 202 174,929 26 1,204 17,253 22,490 7,778
Clark County 116 171,275 27 1,100 14,810 22,108 7,747
Desha County 99 159,432 28 859 12,239 15,254 10,452
Columbia County 136 157,813 29 1,205 14,948 25,248 6,251
Conway County 91 157,107 30 948 12,312 19,998 7,856
Johnson County 104 155,529 31 988 13,373 21,186 7,341
Drew County 102 153,688 32 952 12,323 17,706 8,680
Jackson County 108 152,420 33 862 12,014 17,940 8,496
Hot Spring County 99 144,581 34 787 11,145 28,712 5,036
Cleburne County 111 135,709 35 982 12,399 22,595 6,006
Hempstead County 111 134,400 36 925 12,021 22,034 6,100
Ashley County 117 133,826 37 961 12,327 24,417 5,481
Cross County 80 129,808 38 720 10,500 19,452 6,673
Lawrence County 88 122,022 39 710 9,459 17,437 6,998
Polk County 99 121,336 40 828 10,236 19,523 6,215
Logan County 94 119,471 41 707 9,538 21,254 5,621
Poinsett County 111 118,053 42 760 10,046 24,627 4,794
Sharp County 91 112,622 43 778 8,567 16,710 6,740
Clay County 86 106,226 44 632 8,069 17,433 6,093
Randolph County 73 96,077 45 705 9,129 17,709 5,425
Yell County 70 93,157 46 638 7,294 19,142 4,867
Monroe County 72 89,760 47 488 7,210 10,353 8,670
Howard County 73 88,216 48 634 7,980 13,780 6,402
Chicot County 80 87,139 49 627 7,106 15,070 5,782
Sevier County 70 86,380 50 710 8,075 14,569 5,929
Little River County 57 77,393 51 396 5,242 13,266 5,834
Pike County 60 72,684 52 441 5,229 10,502 6,921
Van Buren County 78 71,684 53 536 6,541 15,593 4,597
Franklin County 63 71,183 54 461 5,933 16,596 4,289
Izard County 57 71,037 55 374 4,810 12,959 5,482
Stone County 63 66,282 56 470 6,397 10,992 6,030
Bradley County 62 65,054 57 385 4,895 11,499 5,657
Dallas County 63 63,285 58 480 6,073 9,166 6,904
Grant County 54 58,541 59 450 5,950 15,671 3,736
Madison County 41 47,679 60 282 3,950 13,092 3,642
Marion County 39 46,150 61 360 4,462 14,501 3,183
Scott County 40 42,218 62 343 4,094 10,886 3,878
Lee County 39 40,769 63 273 3,627 12,526 3,255
Nevada County 40 37,032 64 261 3,083 10,083 3,673
Prairie County 54 36,617 65 246 3,055 9,323 3,928
Woodruff County 48 34,127 66 268 3,230 8,986 3,798
Searcy County 40 31,449 67 253 2,576 7,794 4,035
Lincoln County 28 30,607 68 228 2,930 14,317 2,138
Lafayette County 40 22,056 69 216 2,093 9,038 2,440
Fulton County 40 21,799 70 184 1,932 10,858 2,008
Montgomery County 36 20,889 71 174 2,410 8,533 2,448
Perry County 27 18,952 72 154 1,725 9,464 2,003
Newton County 16 15,131 73 121 1,487 8,203 1,845
Calhoun County 22 13,266 74 91 1,142 5,726 2,317
Cleveland County 19 9,225 75 94 849 8,347 1,105

These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 2/ 9/00 For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.