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Washington

United States · GDP 2024
#440 of 3,127 US counties by GDP57th-percentile growthmore diversified than 87% of counties
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GDP 2024 (USD)
$10.0B
GDP growth
+5.0%
Jobs tracked
61,729
Employers
3,417
Avg. wage
$55.3k
Population
157,731
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.1%
Median HH income
$77.7k±$1.8k
Business applications
1,724 · 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%
Retail trade20%
Transportation19%
Manufacturing17%
Food & accommodation13%
Construction7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
157,731
residents · 2025 · +2.0% since 2020
Income per capita $59.5k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+2,839
International migration+1,474
Natural change−1,228

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$7.4B
2019
$7.1B
2020
$8.0B
2021
$8.6B
2022
$9.5B
2023
$10.0B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$296.1k±$6.2k
Median gross rent
$1.1k/mo±$27/mo
Vacancy rate
6.7%±0.9%
Affordability
5.4× wages
Residential permits
354 (2.2/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
68.8
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.3k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Drought 86Hurricane 86Winter weather 81
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
545
2016
565
2017
594
2018
605
2019
626
2020
700
2021
794
2022
855
2023
918
2024
948
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
1.0 km
I-81
Nearest freight rail
0.4 km
CSXT
Nearest port
106.4 km
Baltimore, MD
Nearest commercial airport
13.8 km
HAGERSTOWN RGNL/RICHARD A HENSON FLD
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$55.3k
avg. annual pay · +24% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Madison$9.9BFlorence$10.0BLa Crosse$9.9BHouston$9.9BHoward$10.0BBlack Hawk$10.0B
The read

Washington's economy produced $10.0B in 2024, growing 5.0% 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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