Economy
The county accounts had 3,106 counties with a real GDP estimate in chained 2017 dollars and the rest withheld in 2024, according to BEA.
Each county is ranked on its real GDP, its personal income and its personal income per resident, nationally and within its state. Real GDP is in chained 2017 dollars. Personal income is in current dollars, which are not adjusted for inflation.
What BEA published for the counties
- 3,106 4 withheld by BEA
- Counties with a real GDP figure
- 2024
- Chained 2017 dollars. A withheld figure is counted, not ranked.
- 3,106 26 withheld by BEA
- Counties with a personal income figure
- 2024
- Current dollars.
- 3,106 26 withheld by BEA
- Counties with a per-capita figure
- 2024
- Current dollars per resident.
About these figures
- Counties with a real GDP figure
- Chained 2017 dollars. A withheld figure is counted, not ranked.
- Counties with a personal income figure
- Current dollars.
- Counties with a per-capita figure
- Current dollars per resident.
Connecticut’s 17 rows for 2024 are set aside: from 2024 BEA’s estimates for Connecticut are for its planning regions and not its counties. The Connecticut page prints them unranked.
What stands out
Six findings. Figures from the 2024 county accounts.
Largest real GDP of any county in 2024: New York, NY, $813,692,135,000, of 3,106 counties ranked. New York, NY →
In chained 2017 dollars.
Largest change in real GDP on the year before in 2024: Carter, MT, 76.6%, of 3,106 counties ranked. Carter, MT →
A percent change is large for a county whose level is small; each ranking page prints both years’ levels.
Largest personal income of any county in 2024: Los Angeles, CA, $818,509,319,000, of 3,106 counties ranked. Los Angeles, CA →
In current dollars.
Largest change in personal income on the year before in 2024: Harding, SD, 22.6%, of 3,106 counties ranked. Harding, SD →
Highest per-capita personal income of any county in 2024: Teton, WY, $532,903, of 3,106 counties ranked. Teton, WY →
In current dollars per resident.
BEA published no real GDP for 4 of 3,110 counties in 2024, and no personal income for 26 of 3,132. Withheld figures →
A withheld figure is counted here and is not ranked.
What changed in this release
This is the hub’s first release, retrieved on November 5, 2026: 3,106 counties with a real GDP published by BEA in 2024.
How many counties grew, by year
Real GDP rose in 73.5% of counties in 2024; the share was lowest, 35.2%, in 2020
The share of counties whose real GDP, in chained 2017 dollars, was higher than the year before, out of the counties BEA published a figure for in both years. It counts counties and sums no dollars: chained-dollar real GDP does not add across counties.
Connecticut is out of the 2024 comparison. BEA’s 2024 estimates for the state are for its planning regions, which have no figure for the year before, and its eight old counties have no 2024 figure, so no Connecticut area is in both years. Earlier years include its counties. The break is in what BEA published, not in the economy.
A county that rose by a dollar counts the same as one that doubled, and a county BEA withholds in either year is not compared.
A rise in real GDP is a county’s output, adjusted for price changes, higher than the year before; it does not say why, and a county with a small economy moves in larger steps.
Source: BEA
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The figures
| Year | Counties compared | Counties that rose | Share that rose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3,106 | 2,283 | 73.5% |
| 2023 | 3,114 | 2,379 | 76.4% |
| 2022 | 3,114 | 1,906 | 61.2% |
| 2021 | 3,114 | 2,501 | 80.3% |
| 2020 | 3,112 | 1,095 | 35.2% |
| 2019 | 3,113 | 1,955 | 62.8% |
| 2018 | 3,113 | 2,070 | 66.5% |
| 2017 | 3,113 | 1,820 | 58.5% |
| 2016 | 3,113 | 1,736 | 55.8% |
| 2015 | 3,113 | 1,960 | 63.0% |
| 2014 | 3,113 | 1,764 | 56.7% |
| 2013 | 3,113 | 2,067 | 66.4% |
| 2012 | 3,113 | 1,698 | 54.5% |
| 2011 | 3,113 | 1,978 | 63.5% |
| 2010 | 3,113 | 2,226 | 71.5% |
| 2009 | 3,110 | 1,176 | 37.8% |
| 2008 | 3,110 | 1,707 | 54.9% |
| 2007 | 3,111 | 1,764 | 56.7% |
| 2006 | 3,111 | 1,990 | 64.0% |
| 2005 | 3,111 | 2,243 | 72.1% |
| 2004 | 3,111 | 2,311 | 74.3% |
| 2003 | 3,111 | 2,279 | 73.3% |
| 2002 | 3,110 | 2,276 | 73.2% |
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County incomes, by state
The median county’s per-capita personal income runs from $47,386 in Georgia to $111,185 in District of Columbia, 2024
The median of each state’s counties’ per-capita personal income, in current dollars, over the counties with a published figure. It is not the state’s per-capita personal income: it weighs a county of a few hundred people as it does one of a million.
Key: Median county per-capita personal income. 5 shades, lightest to darkest: under $52k; $52k to $57k; $57k to $60k; $60k to $70k; $70k and over. gray: not reported.
No dollar is summed to a state total. A county BEA withholds a per-capita figure for is left out of its state’s median, not counted as zero; the table gives each state’s count.
The District of Columbia is one unit. Connecticut’s units are the planning regions BEA publishes in place of counties, which the Census Bureau has used as county-equivalents since 2022; its eight old counties have no figure for 2024.
Source: BEA
About this chart
The figures
| State | Median per-capita personal income | Counties with a figure | Counties withheld |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | $111,185 | 1 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | $87,451 | 5 | 0 |
| Massachusetts | $87,335 | 14 | 0 |
| Connecticut | $82,719 | 9 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | $79,313 | 10 | 0 |
| New Jersey | $78,221 | 21 | 0 |
| Alaska | $74,009 | 30 | 25 |
| Maryland | $73,443 | 24 | 0 |
| South Dakota | $72,472 | 66 | 0 |
| North Dakota | $71,172 | 53 | 0 |
| Delaware | $69,609 | 3 | 0 |
| Vermont | $67,460 | 14 | 0 |
| Hawaii | $67,330 | 4 | 0 |
| Nebraska | $66,441 | 93 | 0 |
| California | $65,898 | 58 | 0 |
| Wyoming | $65,854 | 23 | 0 |
| Minnesota | $63,246 | 87 | 0 |
| Iowa | $62,929 | 99 | 0 |
| Colorado | $62,786 | 64 | 0 |
| Oregon | $60,497 | 36 | 0 |
| Nevada | $60,358 | 17 | 0 |
| Washington | $59,669 | 39 | 0 |
| Wisconsin | $59,659 | 72 | 1 |
| New York | $58,950 | 62 | 0 |
| Maine | $58,853 | 16 | 0 |
| Montana | $58,654 | 56 | 0 |
| Texas | $58,430 | 254 | 0 |
| Kansas | $58,387 | 105 | 0 |
| Illinois | $57,523 | 102 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania | $57,366 | 67 | 0 |
| Virginia | $56,845 | 105 | 0 |
| Indiana | $55,845 | 92 | 0 |
| Utah | $55,422 | 29 | 0 |
| Ohio | $55,326 | 88 | 0 |
| Arizona | $55,303 | 15 | 0 |
| Florida | $55,224 | 67 | 0 |
| North Carolina | $54,221 | 100 | 0 |
| Idaho | $52,766 | 44 | 0 |
| Michigan | $52,654 | 83 | 0 |
| New Mexico | $52,569 | 33 | 0 |
| Louisiana | $52,467 | 64 | 0 |
| South Carolina | $52,156 | 46 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | $51,043 | 77 | 0 |
| Tennessee | $50,868 | 95 | 0 |
| Missouri | $50,694 | 115 | 0 |
| West Virginia | $49,816 | 55 | 0 |
| Kentucky | $48,596 | 120 | 0 |
| Alabama | $48,183 | 67 | 0 |
| Mississippi | $47,596 | 82 | 0 |
| Arkansas | $47,523 | 75 | 0 |
| Georgia | $47,386 | 159 | 0 |
Rankings
Each ranking lists the highest counties nationally and links every state’s counties ranked in full.
States
Each state and the District of Columbia has a page with its counties on every measure.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Questions
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Every page in this topic, by kind.
Questions2
One question per page, answered in the first sentence with the figure.
Rankings5
Every county ranked on real GDP, personal income and per-capita personal income, and on each one’s change from the year before, with each state’s counties ranked in its own list.
States51
A page for each state and the District of Columbia, with its largest counties on each measure and its counties ranked in full.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Sources
- BEA county GDP and county personal income — U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · BEA API Terms of Service · retrieved November 5, 2026
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How to cite this page
Cite the page’s address and the date printed on it, and name U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis as the source of the figures.
American Factbook. “Economy.” Updated November 5, 2026. https://americanfactbook.org/economy. Source: BEA county GDP and county personal income, https://apps.bea.gov/api/data.
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