The Milken Institute again lists Northwest Arkansas, home of Siloam Springs, to its Top 25 Best-Performing Cities, releasing a report that showed the strength of the region's economy compared to all the nation's metropolitan statistical areas. Northwest Arkansas (the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers MSA) took the No. 1 spot in 2026. The ranking is based on each large metropolitan area’s job growth, wage growth, high-tech job growth and high-tech wage growth.

Northwest Arkansas is home to more than 600,000 people, with Benton and Washington counties in particular experiencing an average population growth of at least 4.9 percent; Siloam Springs is located in Benton County.

Real metropolitan gross domestic product (GDP) in the Northwest Arkansas region increased by 1.4% between 2022 and 2023, bringing the GDP to $33 billion. The region’s five-year average annual growth rate from 2018 to 2023 was 4.3%, about 1.9% higher than that of the nation and 1.8% higher than the average growth rate in the state of Arkansas..

Northwest Arkansas business establishment growth from 2023 to 2024 was 0.8%, from 15,654 in 2023 to 15,779 in 2024.

The Northwest Arkansas Council maintains a library of data downloads for the entire metro area.