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Lafourche

United States · GDP 2024
#625 of 3,127 US counties by GDP58th-percentile growthmore diversified than 87% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$6.3B
GDP growth
+5.1%
Jobs tracked
28,210
Employers
1,685
Avg. wage
$64.8k
Population
95,505
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.1%
Median HH income
$63.1k±$3.7k
Business applications
1,132 · 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 care23%
Transportation22%
Retail trade19%
Mining & energy13%
Food & accommodation12%
Construction10%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
95,505
residents · 2025 · -2.0% since 2020
Income per capita $64.6k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−2,860
International migration+676
Natural change+135

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$4.2B
2019
$4.0B
2020
$4.4B
2021
$5.0B
2022
$6.0B
2023
$6.3B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$193.9k±$11.6k
Median gross rent
$928/mo±$63/mo
Vacancy rate
8.9%±1.3%
Affordability
3.0× wages
Residential permits
344 (3.6/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
91.3
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Hurricane 98Tornado 95Heat wave 92
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
263
2016
265
2017
270
2018
276
2019
277
2020
287
2021
313
2022
322
2023
335
2024
336
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$64.8k
avg. annual pay · +27% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Calhoun$6.3BSumter$6.3BDougherty$6.3BChautauqua$6.3BGlynn$6.3BBenton$6.3B
The read

Lafourche's economy produced $6.3B in 2024, growing 5.1% 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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