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County profile

St. Charles

United States · GDP 2024
#366 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-quartile growthmore diversified than 93% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$12.7B
GDP growth
-2.2%
Jobs tracked
20,789
Employers
1,032
Avg. wage
$92.3k
Population
50,586
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.1%
Median HH income
$80.9k±$7.4k
Business applications
716 · 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
Manufacturing29%
Transportation24%
Wholesale trade13%
Construction12%
Retail trade11%
Health care10%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
50,586
residents · 2025 · -3.7% since 2020
Income per capita $64.3k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−2,678
International migration+216
Natural change+443

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$8.4B
2019
$6.3B
2020
$11.2B
2021
$13.4B
2022
$13.0B
2023
$12.7B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$263.7k±$12.9k
Median gross rent
$1.2k/mo±$101/mo
Vacancy rate
10.1%±2.1%
Affordability
2.9× wages
Residential permits
116 (2.3/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
85.1
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.3k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Hurricane 96Coastal flooding 95Heat wave 79
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
254
2016
260
2017
268
2018
279
2019
288
2020
304
2021
339
2022
335
2023
343
2024
353
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$92.3k
avg. annual pay · +29% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Middlesex$12.8BAscension$12.7BJohnson$12.6BMaui + Kalawao$12.8BHarrison$12.8BStearns$12.6B
The read

St. Charles's economy produced $12.7B in 2024, contracting 2.2% year over year — slower than 86% 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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