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Kankakee

United States · GDP 2024
#503 of 3,127 US counties by GDP57th-percentile growthmore diversified than 64% of counties
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$8.5B
GDP growth
+5.0%
Jobs tracked
35,392
Employers
2,268
Avg. wage
$53.2k
Population
105,525
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.9%
Median HH income
$71.3k±$2.9k
Business applications
1,202 · 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
Health care26%
Manufacturing25%
Retail trade21%
Food & accommodation15%
Wholesale trade8%
Education6%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
105,525
residents · 2025 · -1.7% since 2020
Income per capita $55.1k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−2,099
International migration+1,006
Natural change−863

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$6.5B
2019
$6.5B
2020
$7.5B
2021
$7.9B
2022
$8.1B
2023
$8.5B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$192.6k±$5.6k
Median gross rent
$1.1k/mo±$36/mo
Vacancy rate
9.7%±1.2%
Affordability
3.6× wages
Residential permits
113 (1.1/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
88.2
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.3k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Cold wave 94Tornado 86Earthquake 80
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
242
2016
246
2017
255
2018
266
2019
273
2020
298
2021
339
2022
364
2023
388
2024
400
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
2.2 km
I-57
Nearest freight rail
0.0 km
CN
Nearest port
41.7 km
DOW CHEMICAL CO., JOLIET PLANT DOCKS
Nearest commercial airport
65.1 km
GARY/CHICAGO INTL
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$53.2k
avg. annual pay · +19% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Cumberland$8.5BMadison$8.5BClark$8.6BKennebec$8.6BTom Green$8.6BGrant$8.6B
The read

Kankakee's economy produced $8.5B in 2024, growing 5.0% year over year — about the middle of the pack among US counties. Its largest employment sector is health care.

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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