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County profile

Custer

United States · GDP 2024
#1947 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-decile growthmore diversified than 41% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$882.3M
GDP growth
-8.7%
Jobs tracked
3,119
Employers
370
Avg. wage
$47.3k
Population
10,500
Labor & formation
Unemployment
2.4%
Median HH income
$67.9k±$4.8k
Business applications
110 · 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
Manufacturing27%
Health care24%
Retail trade22%
Food & accommodation12%
Construction8%
Finance & insurance6%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
10,500
residents · 2025 · +0.0% since 2020
Income per capita $63.8k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−81
International migration+41
Natural change+46

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$667.5M
2019
$726.1M
2020
$817.6M
2021
$835.5M
2022
$966.2M
2023
$882.3M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$157.8k±$10.5k
Median gross rent
$853/mo±$47/mo
Vacancy rate
15.6%±3.0%
Affordability
3.3× wages
Residential permits
25 (2.4/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
28.0
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$961/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Winter weather 82Wildfire 82Drought 74
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
181
2016
175
2017
187
2018
195
2019
201
2020
204
2021
243
2022
249
2023
258
2024
274
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$47.3k
avg. annual pay · +21% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
DeKalb$882.9MRamsey$883.0MNicholas$883.2MTorrance$881.3MJackson$881.0MCass$883.5M
The read

Custer's economy produced $882.3M in 2024, contracting 8.7% year over year — among the slowest-growing 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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