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Alpena

United States · GDP 2024
#1509 of 3,127 US counties by GDP57th-percentile growthmore diversified than 44% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$1.5B
GDP growth
+5.0%
Jobs tracked
10,141
Employers
822
Avg. wage
$49.9k
Population
28,853
Labor & formation
Unemployment
5.1%
Median HH income
$54.0k±$2.7k
Business applications
235 · 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 care31%
Manufacturing23%
Retail trade22%
Food & accommodation13%
Other services6%
Construction6%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
28,853
residents · 2025 · -0.1% since 2020
Income per capita $54.2k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+916
International migration−1
Natural change−948

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$1.1B
2019
$1.1B
2020
$1.3B
2021
$1.3B
2022
$1.4B
2023
$1.5B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$153.9k±$4.7k
Median gross rent
$673/mo±$37/mo
Vacancy rate
17.1%±1.7%
Affordability
3.1× wages
Residential permits
72 (2.5/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
28.3
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$973/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Cold wave 63Lightning 42Coastal flooding 36
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
209
2016
216
2017
222
2018
234
2019
242
2020
276
2021
340
2022
357
2023
406
2024
403
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$49.9k
avg. annual pay · +24% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Morgan$1.5BToombs$1.5BWhite$1.5BTaos$1.5BJasper$1.5BNeshoba$1.5B
The read

Alpena's economy produced $1.5B 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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