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Carter

United States · GDP 2024
#2186 of 3,127 US counties by GDP36th-percentile growthmore diversified than 68% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$670.6M
GDP growth
+3.0%
Jobs tracked
5,029
Employers
389
Avg. wage
$40.1k
Population
26,149
Labor & formation
Unemployment
6.8%
Median HH income
$51.2k±$4.1k
Business applications
237 · 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
Retail trade26%
Manufacturing22%
Food & accommodation18%
Health care14%
Information11%
Construction9%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
26,149
residents · 2025 · -1.7% since 2020
Income per capita $43.5k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+369
International migration+23
Natural change−860

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$515.2M
2019
$534.1M
2020
$556.8M
2021
$596.7M
2022
$651.3M
2023
$670.6M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$132.8k±$16.5k
Median gross rent
$740/mo±$65/mo
Vacancy rate
12.4%±2.4%
Affordability
3.3× wages
Residential permits
3 (0.1/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
52.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$866/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 90Heat wave 86Ice storm 59
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
153
2016
165
2017
165
2018
178
2019
180
2020
185
2021
220
2022
221
2023
235
2024
236
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
0.8 km
I-64
Nearest freight rail
24.9 km
CSXT
Nearest port
34.4 km
DEBBIE JO DOCK INC
Nearest commercial airport
43.0 km
TRI-STATE/MILTON J FERGUSON FLD
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$40.1k
avg. annual pay · +20% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Comanche$672.0MSwisher$672.3MFalls$669.0MBeaverhead$672.5MLamar$668.4MZapata$668.4M
The read

Carter's economy produced $670.6M in 2024, growing 3.0% year over year — slower than 64% of US counties. Its largest employment sector is retail 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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