Metro Life Score
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR
Bottom-quartile composite Life Score — grade D, 8th percentile of the national corpus.
- 39.3
- Life Score / 100
- D
- Grade (curved)
- #356
- of 387 metros
- 8%
- composite percentile
Data updated August 2026
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The verdict
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers is bottom-quartile composite Life Score — #356 of 387 (39.3/100, grade D, 8th percentile). Carried by environment at 80/100; held back most by safety at 5/100.
- 8th
- composite percentile
- #356
- of 387 peers
- 67th
- cost dimension percentile
- 23rd
- wages dimension percentile
Life Score shape · BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · signature composite
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers: bottom-third composite — where the drag concentrates
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers sits in the bottom third of the metro corpus on composite (#356 of 387, 39.3/100, 7th percentile). Stamps BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED; Safety at 5/100 is the main drag; Environment (80/100) keeps the floor. Cost/wage marks CHEAP/LOW. According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR ranks #356 of 387 metros by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #127 of 387 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.
BEA RPP 91.4 (rent-RPP 76.9). BLS median salary $59,645, 257,840 jobs (Fast Food and Counter Workers, Retail Salespersons, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers). HUD 2BR FMR $1,347/mo (studio $1,007).
FBI UCR (AR): 580 violent, 1940 property/100K. NCES: 13.4:1 ratio, 9.7% charter. EPA: 17 Superfund sites (AR).
Where Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers sits among all US metros
Composite Life Score vs the national field
39 8th percentile higher than 8% of 387 US metros
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Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data · August 2026
How the 39.3 is built
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers's Life Score, decomposed
Dimension detail
How Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers scores, dimension by dimension
Score Breakdown
Dimension Scores
Key Data Points
Geography used: crime, schools, childcare, and environment cards above are AR state-level when metro-specific feeds are unavailable, see the scope key at the top of this page.
Compare Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers With...
Ranking Context
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers outranks 8% of U.S. metros.
| Rank | Metro | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| #353 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 39.4 | D |
| #354 | Fairbanks-College, AK | 39.4 | D |
| #355 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 39.6 | D |
| #356 | Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR | 39.3 | D |
| #357 | Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA | 39.3 | D |
| #358 | Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA | 39.3 | D |
| #359 | San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA | 39.2 | D |
Quality vs. Affordability
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR is bottom 8% lowest-quality nationally and also top 33% most affordable -- a rarer combination among its composite-quality peers, where overall rank and affordability rank usually diverge more than this.
AR Metro Scores
Read with Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
Nearest composite peers and cost poles for Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers (BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW), replacing the fixed Explore/Guides strip.
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
ABS(composite) peer at 39.3 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade D vs this page's BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW.
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
ABS(composite) peer at 39.3 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade D vs this page's BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW.
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
ABS(composite) peer at 39.2 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade D vs this page's BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW.
Fairbanks-College, AK
ABS(composite) peer at 39.4 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade D vs this page's BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW.
Lubbock, TX (cost pole)
ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 68/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.
Toledo, OH (cost pole)
ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 67/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR relocation guide
Stamp-branched guide for BOTTOM · ENVIRO-LED · CHEAP/LOW - how to read federal Life Score inputs before a move.
Using Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers's bottom-third Life Score
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers scores 39.3/100 overall, but Environment (80.3) and Safety (5.4) sit 74.9 points apart, so decide which of the two matters more to you before leaning on the total.
- Environment is the strongest of Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers's seven dimensions (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is your priority, this is where the metro earns its rank. See all seven dimensions
- Safety is the weakest (weighted 15% in the composite); if it is a dealbreaker, weigh it before the ranking does. Rank metros on the composite
- Fort Smith is the nearest comparison this page can offer; put the two side by side on the same seven dimensions. Compare with Fort Smith
A low composite is a weighted blend; individual dimensions can still be strong.