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Columbia

United States · GDP 2024
#896 of 3,127 US counties by GDP35th-percentile growthmore diversified than 61% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$3.5B
GDP growth
+2.8%
Jobs tracked
16,420
Employers
1,819
Avg. wage
$54.4k
Population
60,168
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.3%
Median HH income
$81.5k±$5.0k
Business applications
693 · 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 care33%
Retail trade24%
Food & accommodation16%
Manufacturing12%
Construction9%
Professional services5%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
60,168
residents · 2025 · -2.1% since 2020
Income per capita $79.4k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−521
International migration+616
Natural change−1,368

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$2.6B
2019
$2.7B
2020
$3.0B
2021
$3.2B
2022
$3.4B
2023
$3.5B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$347.1k±$9.8k
Median gross rent
$1.3k/mo±$72/mo
Vacancy rate
20.3%±1.7%
Affordability
6.4× wages
Residential permits
111 (1.8/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
68.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.4k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 83Hurricane 81Lightning 77
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
275
2016
284
2017
302
2018
316
2019
330
2020
383
2021
419
2022
461
2023
500
2024
532
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
19.2 km
I-90
Nearest freight rail
9.0 km
CSXT
Nearest port
13.9 km
A. COLARUSSO & SON DOCK
Nearest commercial airport
57.2 km
ALBANY INTL
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$54.4k
avg. annual pay · +29% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Jefferson$3.5BScioto$3.5BDeKalb$3.4BGenesee$3.5BIberville$3.4BCooke$3.4B
The read

Columbia's economy produced $3.5B in 2024, growing 2.8% year over year — slower than 65% of 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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