Located along Interstate 555, Jonesboro is the retail epicenter of Northeast Arkansas. Despite negative trends of other marketplaces nationwide, Jonesboro is one of the only 26 cities in the 363 metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. that has not only recovered jobs lost from the economy's recent downfall but has added to them!
Jonesboro continues to be the primary bastion of growth and investment. Serving a trade area of over 500,000 people in almost twenty-four counties in Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee, Jonesboro has steadily grown over 40% in size since 1990 and is estimated to maintain that same or greater level of growth over the next 20 years. With a 363,689 primary trade area population, Jonesboro clearly serves more than its 80,900 residents.