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Knox

United States · GDP 2024
#1999 of 3,127 US counties by GDP33rd-percentile growthmore diversified than 44% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$836.8M
GDP growth
+2.6%
Jobs tracked
7,102
Employers
449
Avg. wage
$41.1k
Population
29,532
Labor & formation
Unemployment
6.3%
Median HH income
$32.5k±$6.4k
Business applications
294 · 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
Manufacturing27%
Health care24%
Retail trade20%
Food & accommodation14%
Professional services9%
Education7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
29,532
residents · 2025 · -2.2% since 2020
Income per capita $41.4k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−43
International migration+60
Natural change−690

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$656.8M
2019
$648.4M
2020
$689.7M
2021
$735.8M
2022
$815.9M
2023
$836.8M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$118.7k±$14.1k
Median gross rent
$681/mo±$39/mo
Vacancy rate
15.5%±2.5%
Affordability
2.9× wages
Residential permits
0 (0.0/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
74.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$866/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Cold wave 96Landslide 89Wildfire 85
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
122
2016
132
2017
133
2018
137
2019
139
2020
160
2021
168
2022
216
2023
215
2024
222
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
24.5 km
I-75
Nearest freight rail
1.7 km
CSXT
Nearest port
103.2 km
RON CONLEY ENTERPRISES, CARGILL KNOXVILLE DOCK
Nearest commercial airport
120.5 km
MC GHEE TYSON
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$41.1k
avg. annual pay · +22% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Bethel Census Area$837.1MKalkaska$838.6MRichland$834.2MTaylor$840.0MChoctaw$833.5MOceana$832.9M
The read

Knox's economy produced $836.8M in 2024, growing 2.6% year over year — slower than 67% of US counties. Its largest employment sector is manufacturing.

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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