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County profile

St. James

United States · GDP 2024
#912 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-quartile growthmore diversified than 20% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$3.3B
GDP growth
-2.5%
Jobs tracked
6,480
Employers
339
Avg. wage
$75.0k
Population
18,938
Labor & formation
Unemployment
5.0%
Median HH income
$65.5k±$4.8k
Business applications
276 · 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
Manufacturing38%
Transportation27%
Health care13%
Retail trade10%
Food & accommodation6%
Construction6%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
18,938
residents · 2025 · -5.9% since 2020
Income per capita $77.2k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−1,079
International migration+50
Natural change−155

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$3.0B
2019
$1.9B
2020
$3.0B
2021
$3.4B
2022
$3.4B
2023
$3.3B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$211.8k±$17.3k
Median gross rent
$903/mo±$386/mo
Vacancy rate
13.1%±2.3%
Affordability
2.8× wages
Residential permits
64 (3.4/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
71.0
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$921/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Hurricane 94Drought 91Coastal flooding 83
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
223
2016
233
2017
233
2018
242
2019
249
2020
259
2021
299
2022
306
2023
291
2024
303
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
13.4 km
I-10
Nearest freight rail
0.8 km
CN
Nearest port
2.3 km
OAK ALLEY PLANTATION PASSENGERS
Nearest commercial airport
51.9 km
LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTL
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$75.0k
avg. annual pay · +2% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Pettis$3.3BVan Buren$3.3BWhite$3.3BCaldwell$3.3BLincoln$3.3BTuolumne$3.3B
The read

St. James's economy produced $3.3B in 2024, contracting 2.5% 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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