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McCracken

United States · GDP 2024
#586 of 3,127 US counties by GDP44th-percentile growthmore diversified than 86% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$7.0B
GDP growth
+3.8%
Jobs tracked
34,581
Employers
2,061
Avg. wage
$55.6k
Population
67,553
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.7%
Median HH income
$64.4k±$2.6k
Business applications
981 · 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%
Retail trade22%
Food & accommodation17%
Transportation15%
Construction10%
Admin & support10%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
67,553
residents · 2025 · -0.5% since 2020
Income per capita $71.0k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+506
International migration+378
Natural change−1,257

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$4.6B
2019
$4.6B
2020
$5.3B
2021
$6.2B
2022
$6.7B
2023
$7.0B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$188.1k±$8.6k
Median gross rent
$898/mo±$40/mo
Vacancy rate
14.5%±1.8%
Affordability
3.4× wages
Residential permits
170 (2.5/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
89.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Earthquake 98Heat wave 95Ice storm 93
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
311
2016
315
2017
328
2018
333
2019
344
2020
377
2021
434
2022
466
2023
482
2024
500
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
3.8 km
I-24
Nearest freight rail
3.5 km
PAL
Nearest port
0.2 km
Paducah-McCracken Riverport, KY
Nearest commercial airport
5.5 km
BARKLEY RGNL
Waterborne tonnage, host port(s) (CY2022):7,410,279 short tons/yr · Paducah-McCracken Riverport, KY
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$55.6k
avg. annual pay · +22% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Citrus$7.0BLimestone$7.0BKaufman$7.0BComanche$7.0BWoodbury$7.0BKarnes$7.0B
The read

McCracken's economy produced $7.0B in 2024, growing 3.8% 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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