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Letcher

United States · GDP 2024
#2358 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-quartile growthmore diversified than 27% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$538.8M
GDP growth
-1.6%
Jobs tracked
3,171
Employers
277
Avg. wage
$44.6k
Population
19,952
Labor & formation
Unemployment
5.5%
Median HH income
$41.8k±$3.9k
Business applications
139 · 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 care38%
Retail trade26%
Food & accommodation15%
Mining & energy11%
Transportation5%
Wholesale trade5%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
19,952
residents · 2025 · -7.0% since 2020
Income per capita $44.8k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−563
International migration+31
Natural change−996

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$373.6M
2019
$357.2M
2020
$410.9M
2021
$478.2M
2022
$547.6M
2023
$538.8M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$67.4k±$8.6k
Median gross rent
$669/mo±$47/mo
Vacancy rate
20.2%±2.5%
Affordability
1.5× wages
Residential permits
1 (0.1/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
66.6
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$866/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 91Wildfire 76Avalanche 70
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2013–2022
155
2013
157
2014
154
2015
145
2016
153
2017
159
2018
159
2019
162
2020
181
2021
182
2022

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
67.4 km
I-26
Nearest freight rail
6.0 km
CSXT
Nearest port
133.9 km
Redbud South
Nearest commercial airport
82.2 km
TRI-CITIES
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$44.6k
avg. annual pay · +26% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Lawrence$538.7MCamp$538.6MWebster$539.4MLowndes$537.8MBreckinridge$540.7MLinn$541.5M
The read

Letcher's economy produced $538.8M in 2024, contracting 1.6% year over year — slower than 84% of 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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