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Brown

United States · GDP 2024
#2242 of 3,127 US counties by GDP38th-percentile growthmore diversified than 1% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$624.0M
GDP growth
+3.3%
Jobs tracked
3,834
Employers
108
Avg. wage
$62.3k
Population
6,401
Labor & formation
Unemployment
2.9%
Median HH income
$67.9k±$7.6k
Business applications
41 · 2025

Public companies headquartered here

SEC EDGAR · FMP
CompanySectorRevenueEA

No public companies loaded for this state yet — universe expands with the full ingest.

HQ-based placement with total (global) headcount — local employment attribution needs firmographic data; the industry mix at right is measured county data (CBP).

Industry mix · employment
Wholesale trade66%
Transportation22%
Health care4%
Retail trade4%
Food & accommodation2%
Other services2%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
6,401
residents · 2025 · +2.7% since 2020
Income per capita $49.9k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+223
International migration+1
Natural change−37

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$554.5M
2019
$522.8M
2020
$544.9M
2021
$594.3M
2022
$604.2M
2023
$624.0M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$150.3k±$16.5k
Median gross rent
$698/mo±$227/mo
Vacancy rate
12.1%±4.0%
Affordability
2.4× wages
Residential permits
7 (1.1/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
4.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 79Heat wave 63Drought 55
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2015–2024
120
2015
122
2016
131
2017
128
2018
130
2019
131
2020
132
2021
156
2022
154
2023
167
2024
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$62.3k
avg. annual pay · +22% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Lipscomb$623.7MColfax$623.5MBenton$623.3MMoore$625.1MProwers$625.3MBailey$626.0M
The read

Brown's economy produced $624.0M in 2024, growing 3.3% year over year — slower than 62% of US counties. Its largest employment sector is wholesale trade.

GDP: BEA (2024), USD-normalized · Jobs/employers/wages & industry mix: Census CBP (2023) · Population & migration: Census PEP · Income: BEA CAINC1 · Companies: SEC EDGAR + FMP, by HQ.
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