Funeral services · Metro area · Arkansas
Funeral homes in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area
How the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #101 of 377 scored metro areas
#1 of 5 scored metro areas based in Arkansas
- Listings
- 30
- 4 chain locations (13%)
- Official establishments
- 19
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $25.2M
- On funerals · $117 a household
- Spending per listing
- $839K
- 24% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.4
- 33% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 622,177
- +13.1% since 2020
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What this means
At $117 per household (18% below the U.S. average), households in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area spend about $25.2M a year on funerals. Spread across 30 funeral homes, that is $839K per home, 24% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
The Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area has 30 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 13% of them, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 1.4 for every 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Official counts show 19 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area in 2023. That is one for every 11,346 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $2.2M has gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area.
Population estimates show the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area grew 13.1% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For funeral homes, the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area has a Groundwork market score of 64 (upper middle): #101 of 377 scored metro areas and #1 of 5 scored metro areas based in Arkansas.
How the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area compares
The same measures for Arkansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area | Arkansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.4 | 3.4 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $839K | $409K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 11,346 | 5,716 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −4.5% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +13.1% | +3.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $117 | $139 | $143 |
| Median household income | $81,650 | $60,773 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 27 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 19
- Employees, 2023
- 97
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 304 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 37The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $2.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 622,177+13.1% since 2020
- Households
- 215,566
- Median age
- 36.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 62%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 2,624 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 220
- Median household income
- $81,650+41.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $112,263
- Median home value
- $307,200
- Jobs located here
- 282,187
- Daytime population
- 595,846Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Arkansas market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Arkansas for funeral homes, numbered among those based in Arkansas (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Arkansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR | 64 | 30 | 1.4 | $839K | +13.1% | #101 of 377 |
| 2Hot Springs, AR | 51 | 10 | 2.3 | $713K | −0.6% | #165 of 377 |
| 3Fort Smith, AR-OK | 50 | 18 | 2.0 | $715K | +3.1% | #177 of 377 |
| 4Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR | 40 | 81 | 2.6 | $485K | +3.8% | #248 of 377 |
| Memphis, TN-MS-AR | 34 | 115 | 2.2 | $552K | −0.3% | #286 of 377 |
| 5Jonesboro, AR | 29 | 15 | 2.8 | $443K | +3.6% | #317 of 377 |
| Texarkana, TX-AR | 18 | 20 | 3.6 | $395K | −0.4% | #369 of 377 |
Other business types in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 30 funeral homes in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area. 4 of them (13%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 19 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area spend on funerals?
About $25.2M a year, or $117 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 30 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $839K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 215,566 households in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area has 1.4 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $839K, 24% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area would have about 37, against 30 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 11,346 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area at 622,177 people in 2025, up 13.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 215,566 households. The median household income in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area is $81,650 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 41.8% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area scores 64 for funeral homes (upper middle), #101 of 377 scored metro areas.
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