Market Area

Retail Sales & Service

Baxter County serves as the main trade center for North Central Arkansas. Residents from 10 counties - Baxter, Marion, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Searcy, and Stone in Arkansas, and Howell, Ozark, and Taney in Missouri - work, shop, and play in the Mountain Home area. Over 240,000 (as of the 2010 census) live in these ten counties.

There has been a tremendous growth of retailers, both large and small, within Baxter County. Some of the largest have been:

Examples of some other franchises: McDonalds, Sonic, Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Arby's, Domino's, Wendy's, KFC, Subway and Dairy Queen. Mountain Home also supports many oriental, Mexican and local family-owned restaurants.